Received via E-mail from a friend.......
You can't always control what happens to you but you can
always control how you respond
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.
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.