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A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer <br />and his wife open a package. What food might this contain?" He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.<br /><br />Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning.<br />"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"<br /><br />The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, <br />"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."<br /><br />The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "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."<br /><br />The mouse turned to the cow. She said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose.<br /><br />So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to<br />Face the farmer's mousetrap alone.<br /><br />That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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<br /><br />In the book of Genesis, Cain said this about Able, his brother, to God: "Am I my brother's keeper?"<br /><br />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.