- Subject: A PARABLE....
-
- 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.
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- 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 are 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 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; 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 Abel 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 to encourage one another.
-
- SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO
- HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT
- AND LET THEM KNOW HOW
- IMPORTANT THEY ARE!
-
- Nobody makes the journey alone.
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