Not MY problem

[j]

(This is a very simplistic story, but a powerful message.)

The mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer
and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain?
He was aghast to discover that it was a mousetrap!

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning, "There
is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house."

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and
said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but
it is of no consequence to me; I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mouse trap in
the house."

"I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse," sympathized the pig,
"but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that
you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse,
a mouse trap; am I in grave danger, Duh?"

So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected
to face the farmer's mouse trap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the
house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.

In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous
snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife
and the farmer rushed her to the hospital.

She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knows you treat
a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to
the barmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

His wife's sickness continued so that friends and neighbors
came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer
butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and
so many people came for her funeral the farmer had the cow
slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem
and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least
of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

And so it may be with Germany, France and Belgium one day......

[Amanzi]

A wonderful story. Thank you J. I wish all of us would put this into practice in our lives, myself included.