CARE

TODAY'S LIFE LESSON:
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 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.”
o, 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.