Aseph's fable (the cat and the mouse.)

Today's entry was directly from the spritual thought in one of my church meetings. A typo on the agenda created aesoph's younger lesser known brother, Aseph.

This fable called, "Belling the Cat", is about a group of mice in council. They want to put a bell around the neck of the cat, so they can be free, but can't find anyone to do it. In most translated versions, the moral is, "It is easy to propose impossible remedies." In the version I read for kids, the moral was, "Don't ask others to do things you do not want to do yourself." Which is simliar but different enough to create a new association.

In the spirtual thought, the point of this story was, often it is easy to suggest remedies, and ideas, but it is hard to find people to implement these ideas. We need to be ready to implement the ideas we suggest. The world has far more ideas than those willing to implement ideas.

In the scriptures we often hear about Charity. For the purposes of this post, I want to suggest a new definition of charity. Charity is being performing work for another out of love. Using that definition, we can say the truest expression of our charity is the work we do to serve others. If that is a working definition of charity, we can say this story is looking for the most charitible 'mouse'.

Perhaps we can cast the story one more time, this time with out the moral at the end, or perhaps a whole new story.

The group of mice are in council, and someone suggests that a bell be put around the cat, because the cat represents the obstacles in their life. One said: Whom shall I send? And one answered like unto the Son of Man: Here am I, send me. And another answered and said: Here am I, send me. And the Lord said: I will send the first.