Can One Make a Difference?

Have you ever thought about it - can one person really make a difference? Here is a modern fable from "The Carabou" by Kurt Kauter:




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

"Why, nothing more than nothing!" was the answer.





"In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the coal mouse said. "I sat on the branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when it began to snow. Not heavily, not in a giant blizzard, no, just like in a dream, without any violence. 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 3,741,952!"




"When the next snowflake dropped gently onto the branch - nothing more than nothing, as you say - the branch broke off."

Having said that, the little coal mouse 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 to come into the world."


One persons voice, one persons actions can make a difference! One person who, as Mother Teresa said, cares enough to do some small thing in a great way. She told us, "God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through."

Think about it, then go make a difference...You can do it!

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

Nothing is going to get better.

It's not. ~Dr. Seuss~