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Mouse Trap
A mouse looked through the crack in
the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.What food might this
contain?" The mouse 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 ho
use!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 f ace 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 did not get well; she died.
So many people came for her funeral,
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.
REMEMBER,,,,
EACH
OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY;
OUR LIVES ARE
WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.
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