Tapestry of Life
0 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 wi fe 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. | 
