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  • 5/25/2025
In today's GB News Daily Reflection, Chris Tufnell speaks about the comforts of family."The smell of a family recipe cooking, the sound of familiar voices in the next room, the feeling as you flop into your favourite chair."To be truly home means peace, security, acceptance, love."Some are fortunate to experience something like that in life, some of course don't."

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00:00the chibi news daily reflection hi i'm chris tuffnell the vicar of ooterbridge parish church
00:10there are few things as comforting as arriving back at a happy family home perhaps after a long
00:17time away the smell of a family recipe cooking the sound of familiar voices in the next room
00:24the feeling is you flop into your favorite chair to be truly home means peace security acceptance
00:32love some are fortunate enough to experience something of that in this life some of course
00:38don't but it's something every one of us longs for the author c.s lewis best known for the narnia
00:47stories once wrote if i find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy the only
00:55logical explanation is that i was made for another world his reasoning depends on the assumption that
01:03our desires or longings are all there to drive us to a satisfaction that really exists but does such
01:12a home as we long for really exist the christian response to that question is yes after jesus told
01:21his disciples he would die the next day he said to them in john 14 do not let your hearts be troubled
01:30my father's house has many rooms i am going to prepare a place for you his disciples complained
01:38that they didn't know the way to his father's house this heavenly home but they did they did know
01:44the way because jesus replied i am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except
01:53through me you see jesus taught that the way home isn't a path or a philosophy or a set of religious
02:02practices but a person and he promised to lead home all who trust and follow him

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