[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] FW: Journey Called Life

Fri Mar 26 13:45:52 UTC 2021

From: Larry Perry <larryperry at performancepress.ccsend.com> On Behalf Of Larry Perry
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 8:10 AM
To: mmoore11 at kent.edu
Subject: EXT: Journey Called Life

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Letter from Larry

Friday

March 26, 2021

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Good Friday Morning Everyone:

Today's story is a good one about the Journey we all have

called:

 The Journey Called Life

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 this 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."

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-- 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. 

It was a venomous snake

whose tail was caught in the trap.

The snake bit the farmer's wife.

 The farmer rushed her to the hospital.  

When she returned home she still had 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. 

Friends and neighbors came to sit  with her 

around the clock.  

To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

But, alas, the farmer's wife did not get well...

She died.

So many people came for her funeral

that the farmer had the cow slaughtered

to provide enough meat for all of them

for the funeral luncheon.

And 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 you 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!

May God Bless You and yours!

Larry  

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