The mousetrap
Posted by: roth0003 on: January 9, 2010
Disclaimer – This isn’t original – it’s making the email rounds – but it contains a good message.
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 wondered? He was devastated to discover that it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse shouted out the warning: “There’s a mousetrap in the house! There’s a mousetrap in the house!” The chicken clucked and scratched, then 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’s a mousetrap in the house! There’s 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’s a mousetrap in the house! There’s a mousetrap in the house!” The cow said, “Gee, I’m sorry, Mr. Mouse, 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 housel It sounded like a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she failed to see that it was a venomous snake whose tail had been caught in the trap. The snake bit the farmer’s wife.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital for treatment, and after returning, she developed 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 despite the chicken soup, the woman’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
But the farmer’s wife did not get better. 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 you’re tempted to think it doesn’t concern you, remember – when one of us is threatened, we all are at risk.
The moral of the story: Each of us is a vital thread in another person’s tapestry, and our lives are woven together for a reason. We must keep an eye out for one another and offer encouragement and help in all things.
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