A Call to Action - A Mouse Story

Hello All
Trying to get back to the blog and post some updates. Have had a lot to say, but action has taken the time I would have used to post about things. Below is a post from my martial arts school ( http://www.worldmartial.com ). It was relevant and worth posting, so here it goes:

A Call to Action - A Mouse Story
By Sabumnim David Herbert
From The World Martial Arts Center

There was a mouse, who lived on a farm and his life was perfect. Until one day the farmer asked his wife lay down a mouse trap. The mouse watched in horror because it knew that this was not good, but the mouse did not know what to do or who to turn to. So it ran out of the house in search of help. Hysterically and frantically the mouse ran to the chicken and said, “There’s a mouse trap in the house, there’s a mouse trap in the house!, can you help me, can you help me?” The chicken said, “I’m too busy tending my eggs and I don’t even go into the house and it’s a mouse trap that’s no concern of mine, I’m a chicken”. So the mouse, in despair, ran down to the pig pen and told the pig, “There’s a mouse trap in the house - I told the chicken, but the chicken would not help and the pig said, “What has this to do with me, I’m further away from the house than the chicken it’s none of my concern—maybe you should go and talk to the cow”. So the mouse ran all the way out in the field and said to the cow, “Mr. Cow, Mr. Cow, there’s a mouse trap in the house can you help me?” and the cow said, “Moooooo life is good, but the house is too far away for me to go back there and help you. You should do your best to just avoid it and probably nothing will happen”.

So the mouse finally gave up and in great despair walked back toward the farm house and as he approached the house he heard a ruckus. A snake had gotten his tail caught in the mouse trap. The farmer’s wife after hearing the mouse trap snap ran and reached under the cupboard to pull out the mouse in the trap not knowing it was a snake. The snake bit her and she fell on the floor unconscious and developed a high fever. The farmer tried to contact a doctor but couldn't. He knew that chicken soup was good for fevers, so he went out to that barn and killed the chicken to make chicken soup. Shortly thereafter, the wife’s condition worsened, she grew weaker and weaker. The farmer thought that pork would give his wife strength, so he went out and killed the pig, but the wife died and the farmer was devastated. So they had a funeral and all the relatives came over and he had to feed all of them, so he took an ax and went out and killed the cow. Somehow we are all connected.

All over the world there are people suffering from atrocities beyond belief and this is nothing new. Most of the world simply says it’s not my problem, I can do nothing or pretend it does not exist. What is new is this— with 60 seconds of your time you can go onto this website and simply click 3 buttons to request that world powers address this issue. As you wake up in the morning and have your nice breakfast and go about your pleasant day, there are others who wake up to genocide, rape, starvation or the death of their 2 year old child. When you go home at night and get into your warm bed, you are relatively sure that tomorrow you will wake up refreshed looking forward to the new day. But there are thousands of families that could not even imagine such a thing—they get to huddle together on the hard desert ground, hungry and dehydrated not sure if they will see tomorrow. Learn something—do something. Contact: www.savedarfur.com.