"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
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
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