This is a short story that touched my heart today when I received it in an email....

A Mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer
and his wife opening a package.

"What food might this contain?"
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".
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 that
you are in my prayers."


The mouse turned to the cow.
She said, "Wow, Mr.. Mouse. I'm sorry for you. But it's no skin
off my nose."
So 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 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 and 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.

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.

The farmer's wife did not get well.
She died; And so many people came for her funeral the farmer had
the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.


So next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think
that it doesn't concern you, remember that when one of us is
threatened, we are all at risk.

In the book of Genesis, Cain said about Abel his brother to our
God: "Am I my brother's keeper?".

29) "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is,
Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30) and thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the
first commandment. 31) And the second is like, namely this, Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Mark 12:29-31

Nobody makes the journey alone!


We are all involved in this journey called life.
We must keep an eye out for one another and be willing to make
that extra effort to encourage one another.

How true...thank you for sharing!

I heard this put another way one time. It is hazy now, but I think it was set in the example of the hollocaust in WW11. No one cared for the concerns of the other until one day, they were all sold into bondage and camps. Wish I could remember exactly, but this story does it up proudly enough also...

It was something told by Deitrich Bonnhoffer (please forgive misspelling), a preacher in (I believe) Germany who died in the concentration camps during WWII...he broke it down like this -how the Nazies came after different groups of people...but it didn't apply to the one speaking, so it was none of their affair...but finally it DID apply...but when it did, there was no one to stand with them...

It's an incredible piece (especially in the knowledge that his walk matched his talk, and he lost his life in a concentration camp because of his love for the Jewish people and his faith in Christ)...both help to remind us of the need to love the Lord and others not only in our words but in our actions and every part of our lives!


All love in Him!!!
devorah

Amen!
How true this is.

Deitrich Bonheffer,yes he walked the walk and talked the talk.
Some people just encourage you to keep going and be there
for others. Never turn our backs when someone is asking for help.

The mouse story is excellent to share with everyone.
Thanks soooo much for sending this in. I will be passing this on.
Pay it forward so to speak.

A wonderful Christian woman I know from another site has this as her signature line.....

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. - Martin Niemoller