A blind man sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his
feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only
few coins in the hat.
A woman was walking by. She took a few coins from his pocket and
dropped them into the hat. She then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote
some words. She put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the
new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving
money to the blind man. That afternoon the woman who had changed the sign came
to see how things were. The man recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you
the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The woman said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said
but in a different way.”
What she had written was: “Today is a beautiful day and I cannot
see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the
same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the
first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were
so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign
was more effective?
“It is He, Who has created for you (the sense of) hearing
(ears), sight (eyes), and hearts (understanding).
Give thanks and have a beautiful day :-).
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