We have a church mouse. Perhaps more than one.
I'd heard reports of it, but never seen it, until Sunday night. There it was, running boldly around the dais. It seems to enjoy prayer/worship meetings, as it happily appears during them. Perhaps it is a Christian mouse?
But he/she will have to go. Health and safety and all that. Our cleaner, amongst others, is terrified of the creature. I suggested laying mouse traps. "Much more humane to use a cat", suggested someone. Have you ever seen a cat 'playing' with a captured mouse? The vicarage cats in Lyon brought several love-offerings of partial mice while we were there. Not pleasant.
On Monday night, the Vestry took the decision to have the mouse removed. Rentokil has been called.
If only mice had internet access. Our mouse could then read what I'm about to type.....
Run away, little mouse, before it is too late!
Hi David,
'Run away, little mouse, before it is too late!' I hope the little mouse did manage to run away from those wanting to hurt it.
If only the little mouse was a 'marathon' mouse like the 'marathon mice' in these articles who can run almost twice the distance of normal mice having been genetically engineered by US scientists to do so:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6310
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2004/08/25/ecrmice25.xml&sSheet=/connected/2004/08/25/ixconn.html
Perhaps there is a hidden lesson in that line of yours David.. After all you are a pastor and teaching others tto find spirituality in everything is what you do.. Maybe that line is meant to say that even for us human beings its sometimes better to 'move away' (another way to say 'run away') from situations and people that hurt us 'before it is too late' and they destroy us!!
God's blessings,
Rebecca
Posted by: Rebecca | 28 August 2006 at 02:19 PM