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Date Posted: 03:23:54 05/25/06 Thu
Author: Sue
Author Host/IP: 209.222.250.25
Subject: Unity and Brotherly Love

My heart is saddened to see the spirit that has been displayed in the postings of "Support for UCMI". Perhaps the purpose and intentions started out innocently enough, but what it turned into was nothing short of divisive. Does not our Lord require unity and brotherly love out of HIS people? Do not we owe each other forgiveness where there is hurt feelings or misunderstandings? Are not we to maintain PEACE as much as possible???

Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

This may require humbleness on our parts.

My hope is that we are here to ENCOURAGE one another, to UPLIFT one another, to further the work of the Lord in ALL we do, in word and deed. I feel a deep need for prayer in this matter and pray that all of you will join me in asking for the Lord's WILL to be done here and in each one of our own hearts.

Please read the following and be blessed.......may God manifest HIS love in our hearts today! With Christ's love......Sue

Mousetrap

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?"

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." 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. She 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.

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.

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.

Each Of Us Is A Vital Thread In Another Person's Tapestry; Our Lives Are Woven Together For A Reason.

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