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--- A MOUSE TRAP STORY... WITH A MORAL AT THE END.
(This
is excellent.......)
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.
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!!!
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