The Mouse Trap

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,

there is a mouse trap 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 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, who replied,

"Like wow, Mr. Mouse, a mouse trap;

am I in grave danger, Duh?"

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,

in fact, she died.

So many people came for her funeral

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 are all at risk.

Author Unknown

Psalm 34:17
The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.
Verse 19
The righteous man may have many troubles;
but the Lord delivers him from them all: