Be a voice for peace

In this season of celebration, this season of remembering miracles, I want to share one of my favorite

stories with you (source unknown):

"Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a coal-mouse asked a wild dove.”

  "Nothing more than nothing," the dove answered.

"In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the coal-mouse 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 coal-mouse 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."

This story has helped me find my "inner philanthropist" and become more generous. It has helped me realize the power of one action...one voice...one hand extended to a stranger. Or one light shining inside one person. 

Take the time to be one voice...one hand...one light.