A JOURNEY CALLED LIFE.

A little 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." Then he turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house!" There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig sympathized and 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 farmers wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. When she returned home she was sick and had a fever. Everyone knows chicken soup is used to treat a fever. So the farmer took the hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient: the chicken! 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 to eat for the funeral luncheon. And the mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.