So It's Not My Problem?


          A 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. 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 farmyard  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.