Now Entering: End Of The World

I'm at 30,000 feetish and I look to my left and I see mountain peeks puncturing the clouds. This isn't Colorado, this is taller! It was a majestic site, to be nose to nose (plus a hundred miles.) with these mountains. That's when it hit me, that this may be a place where God decides to pick you up. He is all about light and baby it was bright. Then we started our descent. We dropped below into the gray...everything. An artist's trick to get a certain hue is to first paint the canvas a specific color. In this case God chose gray. The first accent color was brown.  Below was only frozen water in brown for miles. It was as if I was having a hot chocolate slushie made with a bad blender because I still had these massive amounts of ice in the drink. As land approached, white. Everything white with brown/gray trees. The trees had noticeably thick circumferences that reached toward my 737. I hadn't seen anything remotely resembling a living being yet.

I saw an indentation in the snow below that looked like a Russian Cross. Normal cross with slant at the bottom, then I could make out a small building. It was a runway & terminal for dwarves, okay maybe regular sized people, but it was small compared to the everything else. Then back to the trees and a highway with cars. God's lines below were not straight but anything man made was. The two shades of white were only distinguished by geometry.

That's when I started to feel it, not  the gas from the pepperoni pizza in Anchorage, but that Spirit of the Earth from Indian lore. The feeling that God had touched the earth here at the end of the world. The gateway to something else. It's a rugged place, and that's not even close to the mountains. I'm excited - Welcome to Alaska - Gateway to the end of the world!