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I have this group of friends who have been able to pull off some rather impressive vacations over the last several years, including just a few weeks ago, beginning with Yellowstone…Grand Teton…even Canada’s picturesque treasure in Banff…and then there was Glacier National Park, perhaps one of our country’s most spectacular sights, leading one of my friends to conclude, that no matter the most updated phone technology at the our fingertips, the pictures still do not do near the justice to its majesty. It is believed that over 3 million people visit this surreal combination of ancient glaciers and alpine meadows and carved valleys and beautiful lakes, not to mention 700 miles’ worth of trails throughout the park. Some of those millions are people like my tourist friends. Some are those trying to get to all the national parks in their lifetime. But some have reached a point in their life where they seem to have found absolute rock bottom, dealing with grief or addiction or an illness that seems to have become their ultimate identity. And some of those stories are just as majestic as any of the images you will find of nature’s bounty. So, I want to share with you one such story, written 20 years ago, by a woman named Mary. She wrote:...