Next time we think it is NOT our problem ...... A nice parable

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Found this on the web. A good thought provoking parable. My thanks

to the unknown author. JAI MAA

 

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A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his

wife opening a package. What food might it contain?

He was aghast to discover that it was a mouse trap. Retreating to

the farmyard the mouse proclaimed the warning:

"There is a mouse trap in the house, a mouse trap in the house!"

 

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Excuse

me, 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 mouse trap in

the house, a mouse trap in the house!"

 

"I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse," sympathized the pig, "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. She said, "You say, Mr. Mouse. A mouse

trap? Like I am in grave danger....NOT!"

 

So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face

the farmer's mouse trap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the

sound of a mouse trap 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. 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.

 

His wife's sickness continued so that 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 and a few days later she passed

away.

So many people came for her funeral, that the farmer had the cow

slaughtered, to provide meat for all of them to eat.

 

So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think

that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is

threatened, we all may be at risk.

 

We are all one family on this planet Earth!