When one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

A mouse sat in his home, a tiny hole in the wall, watching the farmer and his wife opening a package.

"What food is this?" said the mouse... but what was brought from the torn an tattered wrappings, but a mousetrap. Stricken with fear the sad little mouse went out to the farm yard, and said "There's a mousetrap in the house!"

The chicken, who was not concearned 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 again he proclaimed "There's a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized saying "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"

Feeling sort of downed at this point the mouse turned to the cow and frantically stated his warning again "There's a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow looking a little irritated to be drudged from her chewing cud and grazing 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 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 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 looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

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.

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.