A FABLE ON PEACE
When Christ was born, the angel declared to the frightened shepherds, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will.” But the world has seen very few years of peace since Christ our Prince of Peace has come. I discovered this fable on peace which challenges me. “Tell me the weight of a snowflake,” a sparrow asked a wild dove. “Nothing more than nothing,” was the answer. “In that case, I must tell you a marvelous story,” the sparrow said. “I sat on the branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when it began to snow — not heavily, not in a raging blizzard — no, just like in a dream, without a sound, 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…
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