Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

You may have noticed some snow recently. This just goes to show that the Invisible Magic Friend likes to provide a variety of weather. He particularly likes to provide a lot of weather in Britain, which gets a great deal of weather indeed. The Venerable Bede said in the 8th century that Britain got a great deal of weather even then. So it seems that we've been having a great deal of weather for some time now.

What does Christianity have to say about snow? Well the bible tells us, in several places, that snow is white. In Kings it says that snow is white. This is confirmed in Psalms, in Isaiah, in Daniel, in Mathew and in Revelation. Indeed, this would appear to be one of those rare instances where all mentions in the bible seem to agree, namely that snow is indeed white. One of the things I myself have noticed about snow is that it is generally of a white disposition, confirming once again the reliability and usefulness of holy scripture.

But it isn't just the Bible and the Venerable Bede who mentioned snow. A poet mentioned snow as well. Robert Bridge's poem London Snow makes considerable reference to snow. He says it falls at night and covers everything. It covers roads and roofs and railings and trees and St. Paul's Cathedral. He too is in agreement that snow is white.

I will now end on a line of great mystical significance, that will leave you to ponder if there may not be some hidden meaning, some profound metaphor that goes beyond frozen precipitation, that fair invigorates the mind with most wondrous imaginings, for the snow does fall on all, "making unevenness even".

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