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A poem...

 "Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a robin asked a dove.


     "Nothing more than nothing," was the answer.


     "In that case, I must tell you a marvelous story," the robin said.


     "I sat on the branch of a fir tree, close to its truck, when it began to snow, not heavily, not in a raging blizzard, no, just like in a dream, without any violence. Since I didn't have anything else to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and branch. Their number was exactly 3,741,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch -- nothing more than nothing, as you say -- the branch broke off."


     Having said that, the robin 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 and justice to come about in the world."


Excerpt from Mennonite Mission Network's Sept 2024 newsletter, Extending Beyond



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