Abstract
No matter what the song claims, it's not a small world after all. This bumpy spheroid we call earth has a circumference that spans almost 25,000 miles at the equator. That gives us roughly 200,000,000 square miles of surface area, with about 57,500,000 of that being land (give or take some ice-obscured areas of Antarctica). And what does that tell us? It tells us God wanted a big canvas. On these rocky shores and towering mountains, on these far-reaching steppes and dew-drenched valleys, God had a saga planned. An epic he'd plotted before the first raindrop rolled off a leaf, before the first comet streaked through the solar system, before light itself broke into the darkness of nothingness. God is writing his-story here-on this whirling blue planet. And he placed this unique globe in an absolutely huge universe, which is the stage you'd expect for a God-sized plan.