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 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 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.
SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU
OUT AND LET THEM KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE.
REMEMBER: EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER
PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.
One of the
best things to hold onto in this world is a friend.