couple weeks ago,, i gOt an email from one of mY Philippines friend, name Cecille Estoque, we met in the IYF 2008,,
the email made me to start looking something beyond the only eye-seeing, and I found that there always amazing things happen behind that,, and we can also realize that everything has a lesson to learn for us, a free one,,
enjoy it, here’s the email :
A mouse looked through the crack
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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 :
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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 pig and told him,
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‘There is a mousetrap in the house!
There is a mousetrap in the house!’
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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.’
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The mouse turned to the cow and said,
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‘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.
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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 hatchet to the farmyard
for the soup’s main ingredient.
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But his wife’s sickness continued,
so friends and neighbors came to sit
with her around the clock.
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To feed them,
the farmer butchered the  pig.
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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 —-
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when one of us is threatened,
we are all at risk.
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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.
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SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO
HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT
AND LET THEM KNOW HOW
IMPORTANT THEY ARE.
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REMEMBER. . . . . .
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EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON’S TAPESTRY;
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OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER
FOR A REASON.
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One of the best things to hold onto
in this world is a FRIEND.