[Thespiritexpress] one more voice

[Lydia Rand]

Wonderful story!

> On Oct 27, 2020, at 10:51, UniversallyFemale via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> ❤️Thank you❤️
> ~I LOVE THIS~
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 27, 2020, at 9:46 AM, Carlie Abbott via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto: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.
>> 
>> With love,......Carlie
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>> ‘Tell me the Weight of a Snowflake’ from New Fables, Thus Spoke the Marabou  — by Kurt Kauter.  
>> 
>> “Tell me the weight of a snowflake,” a coal-mouse asked a wild dove.
>> 
>> “Nothing more than nothing,” was the answer.
>> 
>> “In that case, I must tell you a marvellous story,” the coal-mouse said.
>> 
>> “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.”
>> 
>> Having said that, the coal-mouse flew away.
>> 
>> 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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