Friday, January 18, 2013

Don't turn your back on them


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."
 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 it's 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, family, 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 watched it all from his little crack in the wall with great sadness. 
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We have all heard someone around us vent about there problem and at one point or another, we have all turned our backs on them with the thought, that isn't my problem. As family members, friends, neighbors, yes even strangers that are bound together by community or country, we need to remember that when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk! Just like the mouse who had a problem and told the animals in the farmyard. They told the mouse that it wasn't there problem, that they didn't really care, and look what happened. Sometimes people just need kinds words to help them through their problems, something comforting. Give that person the words of encouragement they may need, there success or failure may just affect your success or failure. We need to pay it forward and continue to give more than we take. Make it your goal today, right now, to help the ones in need. Don't turn your back on them because what you may not realize is that you are just as much at risk!
Remember that everyone is different, be compassionate toward someones else's worries. Just because that issue would not fluster you in the least bit, be tender-hearted toward  them as it obviously effects them. Be the brother or sister that we were created to be.
"DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON THEM"




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