Good point.

Phil.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rhonda Partain" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 5:02 PM
Subject: a lesson learned


>A friend sent me this, so true!
> 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 this 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
> -- 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.
> It was a venomous snake
> whose tail was caught in the trap.
>
> The snake bit the farmer's wife.
>
>
> The farmer rushed her to the hospital.
> =
> When she returned home she still had 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.
> Friends and neighbors
> came to sit  with her
> around the clock.
> To feed them,
> the farmer butchered the pig.
>
>
> But, alas,
> the farmer's wife did not get well...
> She died.
>
>
> So many people came for her funeral
> that the farmer had the cow slaughtered
> to provide enough meat for all of them
> for the funeral luncheon.
>
> And 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 you 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.
> YOU MAY WANT TO SEND THIS
> TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER
> HELPED YOU OUT...
>
>
> AND LET THEM KNOW
> HOW  IMPORTANT THEY ARE.
> - REMEMBER -
>
> EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD
> IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY.
>
>
> Rhonda Partain
>
>
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