EmogInspiration

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 the 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 — 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.

This is a call to everyone to be your brother’s keeper.
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. Let us together build the Nigeria of our dreams.