FW: Mouse Story, good story

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I thought of all of you when I read this storyJ

Marla

Subject: Fw: Mouse Story

Mouse Story ...

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.

SEND THIS

TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT

AND LET THEM KNOW

HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE.

REMEMBER:

EACH OF US IS A VITAL

THREAD IN

ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY;

OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN

TOGETHER FOR A REASON.

One of the

best things to hold onto in this world is a friend.

Amen.