A little parable....
A Mouse Story
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.
REMEMBER:
EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S
TAPESTRY;
OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.
