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Sometimes when I tell people about my experience of God, I feel a bit like Lucy when she had returned from the wardrobe for the first time (The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe). She really had been to Narnia. It really did exist. It was an amazing place, and yet it just sounded too far fetched for her brothers and her sister.

“Batty!” said Edmund, tapping his head. “Quite batty.”

“Don’t be silly Lucy,” said Susan.

Peter said, “That’s going a bit far.”

Lucy had been there. She really had experienced Narnia. When I saw the film with...

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