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...