Bringing alive God's Deep Magic

Off Topic - My computer software for some reason pulled up this pic in some type of "remember this?" feature w facial recognition (all the technocrats seem really into that right now.)

Ironically, I don't remember this photo but seeing it made me think of how much I appreciate everything each one of you do to bring God's "deepest magic" (Chronicles of Narnia) alive on the docks for so many!

Steve Mann

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  1. Miriam HamiltonOctober 8, 2017 at 12:08 PM

    Oh wow, thanks for sharing, Steve! Watching the kids fish was a joy this summer.

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