Rhonda,
Thank you for sharing with us! It is true when one of hurts we all hurt!
Huggs and blessings!
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhonda Partain" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:25 PM
Subject: we are all connected
> Mouse Story ...
> 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 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! 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 --
> 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.
>
> 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 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.
>
> SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT
>
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