I attended the special mass calling for the abolishment of ISA, the draconian law. FF, the priest saying mass told us the story of ‘The weight of a snowflake’ by Kurt Kauter.
As usual, I took notes. I was writing away in frenzy because homily by FF is usually very interesting and I like to note pertinent points and reflect them in my blog. FF ended the homily with this story. I found it on several sites and copied this from positivethinking.
“Tell me the weight of a snowflake,” a coalmouse asked a wild dove.
“Nothing more than nothing,” the dove answered.
“In that case I must tell you a marvelous story,” the coalmouse said. “I sat on a fir branch close to the trunk when it began to snow. Not heavily, not in a raging blizzard. No, just like in a dream, without any violence at all. Since I didn’t have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly 3,471,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch–nothing more than nothing — as you say — the branch broke off.”
Having said that, the coalmouse ran away.
The dove, since Noah’s time an authority on peace, thought about the story for a while. Finally, she said to herself, “Perhaps there is only one person’s voice lacking for peace to come to the world.”
So, is your voice going to be like the 3,471,953 nothing more than nothing snowflake that breaks the branch of the fir tree?
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