A MOUSETRAP -No
Concern of Ours
(A great version of the
Pastor Martin Niemoeller quote – see below)
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 wasaghast to
discover that it was a mouse trap!
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 think of to do about it. Surely
someone else willstep in to
help.”
The mouse turned to the cow, who
replied, “Like wow, Mr. Mouse, amouse
trap; am I in grave danger, Duh?”
So the mouse returned to the house, head
down and dejected to factthe
farmer’s mouse trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard
throughout the house, like thesound
of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed tosee 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 afever
with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to thefarmyard 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.
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"First
they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a
Communist.
Then
they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then
they came for the trade unionists, & I didn't speak up because I wasn't a
trade unionist.
Then
they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then
they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Pastor Martin Niemoeller,
German clergyman (1892-1984) who opposed Nazism.
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