“My wife always said that the Grand Canyon proved God is a glass half-full kind of guy.” “How so?” “My wife, Margie, she said that you wouldn’t go to the Grand Canyon and look for what’s not there. You’d look for what’s left. Said the Colorado River ran through here and took a lot, but what it left behind is the real treasure. She’d say, ‘Ned, canyons aren’t about the absence. They are about what remains. Artifacts of survival and patience and slow weathering. If people looked over that edge and only looked for the missing ground, they wouldn’t see the beauty. It’s God’s glass half-full.’ She
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