from a journal entry on our road trip written lying on Sandy Beach in Acadia National Park next to Laura and Eileen... Friday June 29, 2007 ... So today...was one of the best days of my life. Atop Cadillac Mountain we met a man who said he's been coming here for 30 years and it has changed little except for the number of people come: and its true. This place is timeless. Its beauty and majesty dont fade with age and time....irregardless of where i go, what i see....who i become..this will remain. The view is breathtaking. I never realized America was this beautiful and i have never wanted more to be a bird capable of flight than i do today...looking over the harbor and the endless expanse of pines and water. To soar over it would have been heavenly. Theres such freedom in the ocean...in the wind blowing my hair. It makes me want to cry from the peace and solace it brings. Its methodic- nothing but God can alter its rhythm. This is raw, untouched beauty. No painter can match this on a canvas if they tried a hundred years...no carver can chisel the crevices that line the rocky coast. The point where sky meets sea is intangible and yet it lies before me- seemingly at arms reach. Bounding from rock to rock on the mountain top...arms outstretched i felt like i was on top of the world. This world. My world. Our world. A world created for me. I took from this something that no other human being is capable of taking. Through my eyes God saw the world, his creation, in a way that he has never seen before. It makes me believe without a doubt that beauty will change the world and that there is no greater artist. How can you deny the existence of a heart behind this beauty? I want to get married on a day like today, in a place like this. I dont know what it is about the sea....but it holds such mystery and maybe thats what captivates me. We only see the surface and it tantalizes...beacons as it flows and crashes with life. It has an unmatched beauty yet it reminds us of the world it hides .. far below. Its ironic how the surface can be deadly...and yet..below, all remains calm...somewhat opposite to humanity who may be calm on the outside but inside, where it really matters and where true beauty lies, they are most restless. I've lived here most of my life and never come here. I cant believe it. How beautiful the rest of the world must be! and i wish so much to see it - all. I've done my share of traveling, seen the remnants of history. But nothing, nothing ever compares to the beauty and wonder of Gods creation. And to think that he created it for ME and it has been waiting here patiently for me to come for thousands of years blows my mind. In all truth...i couldn't want for more. if you ever get the chance go to Acadia preferably on a 72 degree, crystal blue sky with puffy white clouds and breezy day :O) | 
