I found this story out there on the 'Net while trawling around for material for a new post and something about it really struck a chord with me:

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package.
"What's in there? I'm betting it's food!" the mouse thought.
He was devastated to see it was a mousetrap!

Running into the farmyard in a panic, the mouse shouted out a warning
"There's a mousetrap in the house! OMG! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said gravely,
"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! OMG 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
"Help! Help me! 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, to be honest it's no skin off my nose."
The mouse went back inside, thoroughly dejected by his fellow farm-dwellers responses, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house:
"SNICK"
The sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife, filled with joy, rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a rattlesnake 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 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, sadly she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had to slaughter the cow 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 moral of this story is?

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 we call life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

Have a great weekend

Peace

John

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