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 times 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!