00:00the chibi news daily reflection hi my name is mark and i'm a vicar of an urban church in teesside
00:10i wonder if you've given up anything for lent this year perhaps there's something that you've
00:15been doing that you know is wrong and have decided that now is the time to kick it for good or
00:21perhaps a few months ago you made a new year's resolution to change how you acted if you have
00:26you'll probably have noticed that the first weeks might be easy but then you found it getting harder
00:32and harder to keep up your commitment it's weird because we all want to change but at the same time
00:38seem to find something inside ourselves fighting against that change the bible talks about this in
00:44the letter to the church in rome where saint paul writes that i want to do good evil is right there
00:50with me so what do we do maybe we double down our commitments and this time promise to try even
00:56harder but if the problem's within me perhaps i need to look outside myself to find help to change
01:03for me i've been encouraged and helped by friends and family but it's the promise of
01:07jesus that he'll keep working at transforming me even when i want to give up that i found particularly
01:13really precious
01:22you
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