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's a mousetrap in the house!
There's 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'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, "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 didn't 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.

~Author Unknown~

Hebrews 4:16
Let us therefore come boldly to the
throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of need.

~Midi~
"Let's Forget About Ourselves"