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A MOUSE STORY WITH A MORAL
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PEGASUS
(VIP) 31 Jul 2004 10:55am
A MOUSE STORY WITH A MORAL
A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his
wife opening a package. What food might it contain? He was horrified to
discover that it was a mouse trap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: 'There
is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap 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 mouse trap in
the house.' 'I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse,' sympathized the pig, 'but
there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured that you are in my prayers.'
The mouse turned to the cow. She said, 'Like wow, Mr. Mouse. A mouse
trap. I am in grave danger. Duh?'
So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected to face
the farmer's mouse trap alone. That very night a sound was heard
throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that 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.
She returned home with a fever. Now 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.
His wife's sickness continued so that 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, and so many people came
for her funeral the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for
all of them to eat.
So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think
that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is
threatened, we are all at risk.
In the book of Genesis, Cain said about Able his brother to our God
'Am I my Brother's keeper? We must all have a keen eye out one for another and be willing to offer that extra care and encouragement to each other.
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