[Thespiritexpress] one more voice
UniversallyFemale
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Tue Oct 27 10:51:58 PDT 2020
❤️Thank you❤️
~I LOVE THIS~
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> On Oct 27, 2020, at 9:46 AM, Carlie Abbott via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> How many times do we wonder how can my one voice make a difference? Last night I was referred to this poem.
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> With love,......Carlie
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> ‘Tell me the Weight of a Snowflake’ from New Fables, Thus Spoke the Marabou — by Kurt Kauter.
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> “Tell me the weight of a snowflake,” a coal-mouse asked a wild dove.
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> “Nothing more than nothing,” was the answer.
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> “In that case, I must tell you a marvellous story,” the coal-mouse said.
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> “I sat on the branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when it began to snow — not heavily, not a blizzard –no, just like in a dream, without a wound and without any violence. Since I did not have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly 3,741,952. When the 3,741,953rd dropped onto the branch — nothing more than nothing, as you say, the branch broke off.”
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> Having said that, the coal-mouse flew away.
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> The dove, since Noah’s time, an authority on the matter, thought about the story for a while and finally said to herself, “Perhaps there is only one person’s voice lacking for peace to come to the world.”
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