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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