A mouse looked through the
crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.
"What food might this
contain?" he wondered;- he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap!
Retreating to the
farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There is a mousetrap in the
house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can
tell 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 mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig
sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I
can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers." The mouse turned
to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap
in the house!" The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no
skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the
farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound
of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was
caught. In the darkness, she did not see 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, and she returned home with a fever.
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. But his wife's
sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the
clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife still did
not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral that the farmer
had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great
sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't
concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out
for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another. Each of us
is a vital thread in another person's tapestry; our lives are woven together
for a reason.
Author unknown, forwarded by Kenny
Murray
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