06/02/2022
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The Connection
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A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.
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What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
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Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
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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."
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The mouse turned to the goat and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
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The goat 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."
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The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
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The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
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So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
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That very night a sound was heard throughout the house - like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
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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.
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The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital , and she returned home with a fever.
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Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his matchet to the farmyard for the soup's main Ingredient.
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But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbours came to sit with her around the clock.
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To feed them, the farmer butchered the goat.
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The farmer's wife did not get well; she died.
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So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
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The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
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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.
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We are all involved in this amazing journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
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Each of us may not be connected through a blood line, we may not even be friends. But we are all connected through God.
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Shalom!