Changing the Sign

"Changing the Sign"*

*A blind boy 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 a few coins in the hat. A man was walking
by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them
into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and
wrote some words. He 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 boy. That afternoon, the man who had
changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy
recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who
changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said
but in a different way."

What he 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?

Moral of the Story:

Be thankful for what you have.
Received on Sun Jun 13 08:46:16 2010