THEY HAVE PROBLEMS BUT WHO IS THEY?

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Once upon a time a mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the barnyard, he rushed around warning all the other animals, “There’s a mousetrap in the house, there’s a mousetrap in the house!”

The chicken clucked and raising her head, 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.”

So the mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There’s a mousetrap in the house!”

The pig sympathized but said, “I’m so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured that you are in my prayers.”

The mouse turned to the cow, but she said, “I’m sorry for you, Mr. Mouse, but it’s no skin off my nose.”

So the mouse, head down and dejected, returned to the house 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 that 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.

Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the barnyard for the soup’s main ingredient.

But his wife’s sickness persisted, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

But she did not get well and soon died. So many people came for her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them.

So, the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it doesn’t concern you, remember that when one of us is threatened, we all are at risk.

In the book of Genesis, Cain asked God about his brother Abel, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Because we are all involved in this journey called life, the answer is yes. We must keep an eye out for one another. Be willing to make that extra effort to encourage and sometimes even give more than just compassionate, verbal support.

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