People are frustrated and divided with this heated Presidential race. “I don’t like either candidate. Why should I vote?” To our surprise, a fable answers the question. A sparrow asked the dove, “Tell me, the weight of a snowflake.” “Nothing more than nothing,” the dove answered.
“In that case, I must tell you a marvelous story,” the sparrow said, “I sat on the branch of a fir when it began to snow—not heavily, not in a raging blizzard—no, just like 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 more than nothing as you say, the branch broke off.” Having said that, the sparrow flew away.
The dove pondered the story for a while. “Perhaps one person’s voice is lacking for peace, and the ability to make a change.”
If we honestly examine each candidate with the pros and cons as to who’s the closest to our values, and will bring change one, of the lesser of the two evils, will emerge. The decision may be muddy, but even the religious world encourages us to do something over nothing: “ I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold not hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth” (Revelation 3:15-16, NKJV).
It took the last, “nothing more than nothing, to break the branch with a resounding impact as it gently, quietly joined the others. And the impact of our voice will do the same, when we cast it.