The Parable of the Mouse

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
through out 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.

(Thanks to my Dad for passing along this story)

Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 NLT