The Mouse Trap
A Mouse looked through the crack in the wall
to see the farmer and his wife open 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 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 very sorry, Mr. Mouse,
but there is nothing I can do about it.
Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and told her,
"There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The cow replied, "Mr. Mouse, I'm sorry for you,
but thats no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected,
to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That night a sound was heard throughout the house,
like the sound of a mousetrap catching it's prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.
In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake.
The snake bit the farmer's wife.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital,
and she returned home with a fever.
Everybody knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken,
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;
in fact, she died.
So many people came for her funeral,
the farmer had the cow slaughtered
to provide enough meat for all of them.
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.
Each of us is a vital thread in another person's tapestry.
Our lives are woven together for a reason.
~ author unknown