A World of Whiteness

A week ago in the midst of our 3 day snowy season, whiteness descended on Lancaster. I was bussing it home from uni, and for the first three quarters of a mile or so, the road runs through countryside. The relevance of this is that there are few buildings to block the line of sight stretching into the distance. But last week one could barely see further than a few meters in either direction because the air was all white. It was super eerie. It made me wonder: what if the air was always so white, everywhere? Imagine if we lived in a world where you could never see further than a few meters around you. Imagine standing at a high point – a hill or the top of a building – and looking down to see nothing but a blanket of whiteness. Imagine not having aerial photographs or pictures of the earth from space, because they’d just be all white. Our maps would probably be different, and we’d experience the landscape very differently because we wouldn’t have a general overview of the lie of the land in the back of our mind. Thank God that he made the air see-through so we can see his creation!