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. We must keep an
eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
Each
of us is a vital thread in another person's tapestry.
JOKE:
The Big Flood
It had been raining for days and days, and a terrible flood had come over the land. The waters rose so high that
one man was forced to climb onto the roof of his house.
As the waters rose higher and higher,
a man in a rowboat appeared, and told him to get in.
"No," replied the man on the roof. "I have faith in the Lord; the Lord will save me." So the man in the rowboat went away. The man on the roof prayed for God to save him.
The waters rose higher and higher, and suddenly
a speedboat appeared. "Climb in!" shouted a man in the boat. "No," replied the man on the roof. "I have faith in the Lord; the Lord will save me." So the man in the speedboat went away. The man on the roof prayed for God to save him.
The waters continued to rise.
A helicopter appeared and over the loudspeaker, the pilot announced he would lower a rope to the man on the roof. "No," replied the man on the roof. "I have faith in the Lord; the Lord will save me." So the helicopter went away. The man on the roof prayed for God to save him.
The waters rose higher and higher, and eventually they rose so high that
the man on the roof was washed away, and alas, the poor man drowned.
Upon arriving in heaven, the man marched straight over to God. "Heavenly Father," he said, "I had faith in you, I prayed to you to save me, and yet you did nothing. Why?" God gave him a puzzled look, and replied
"I sent you two boats and a helicopter, what more did you expect?"
