Today is Tuesday, June 7th, 2005; Karen's Korner #562
The writing below was emailed to me yesterday by Brenda Grummitt, who wanted to know if this forwarded email could be include in an upcoming Karen's Korner. Of course it can, Brenda. I liked it! Hope that you do too:
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A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his
wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" 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." 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. She 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.
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.
In the book of Genesis, Cain said this about Abel, his brother, to our
God: "Am I my brother's keeper?"
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.
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