There is something to be said about beauty. It has been attempted to be defined for thousands of years, and depending on who you talk to, you'll get a different response on what the definition if beauty is. See no one can define beauty because its all who we experience it. But we can all look at something, or experience something, that is beautiful and know what it is-a sunrise, a well-versed poem, a wedding, or a young girl in a fancy bow. How does one define something so vast? And beyond explanation? And then I think maybe beauty isn't necessarily the actual noun we are experiencing, maybe we define beauty by how it makes us feel. Is that okay? I'm not really sure. But what I do know is that beauty, however it's defined, strikes a chord down deep in all of us. It's much deeper than a momentary experience-true beauty makes us come alive. And that's what we are all after. We are all longing to feel complete, and satisfied, and full as a person. And we search our whole lives trying to find and experience that fullness. As I am wrapping up my 5th week here out in Glacier National Park, I have come alive. Being out in the wilderness, falling asleep to vast galaxies and waking up to a golden sunrise reflecting off the mountains, and using the body God has given me to roam and explore his stunning creation, I'm alive. An when we experience something so deep as this beauty, we are drawn to it, and we long for it. We thirst. And this longing comes from God, the true sense of beauty itself.
I am blessed beyond what I deserve at this point. This experience out here is more than I could have ever imagined both good and bad. The people I work and live with are incredible, there is a great community, and the location of where I get to be all summer are justs few of the many things God has blessed me with.
Thank you for all your prayers and support!
Ali
