Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Do we need to care?

Do we need to care?


Every day, we hear about the problems

of our friends, neighbors and relatives. How should we react to problems that don’t affect us directly? Let me tell you a story: A mouse looked through a crack in a wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. He was shocked when he found it to be a mouse trap. The mouse warned the farmyard animals, “There is a mouse trap in the house! There is a mouse trap in the house!” The chicken said, “I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me.” The goat told him, “I am so sorry, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured that you are in my prayers.” The cow made fun of him: “A mouse trap? I am in grave danger!” So the mouse returned to the house to face the mouse trap alone. That night, when everybody was sleeping, a sound was heard throughout the house. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what happened. In the darkness, she did not see that the trap had caught a poisonous snake. The snake bit the farmer’s wife, and the farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with chicken soup, so the farmer slaughtered the chicken. His wife’s sickness continued, and friends and neighbors came to sit with her. To feed them, the farmer butchered the goat. The farmer’s wife did not get well. In fact, she died, and many people came for her funeral. So the farmer killed the cow to provide meat for them to eat. So the next time someone is facing a problem and you think it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

1 comment:

  1. very nice story. i learned alot.

    Good morning and keep blogging!

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