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A Mouse

A Mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his
wife opening a package.  "What food might this contain?"    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."  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 that you're in my
prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow. She 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 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 and she
returned home with a fever.

Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soups 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; and so many people came for
her funeral the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for
all of them.

So next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it
doesn' t concern you, remember that when  one of us is threatened, we are
all at risk. In the book of Genesis, Cain said about Able, his brother, to
our God: "Am I my brother's keeper?"

We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and be willing to make that extra effort encourage and protect one another.

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