On this day in 1809, the French educator, Louis Braille was born. Braille became blind after an accident at the age of three. He was admitted to the Royal Institute for the Blind at the age of ten.
At the age of twelve, Braille attended a presentation by Charles Barbier who had invented a system known as sonography to help people read at night. After Braille sat through the presentation, he had many suggestions for the improvement of the system. His proposals were ignored by the inventor because they were coming from a blind twelve-year old boy.
Braille took the matter up personally having developed great interest in a technology that could eventually help blind people read. The end of the story is that Braille, at the age of sixteen, invented the Braille (named after him) – a dot tactile writing system which enables the blind to read and write. Today, Braille’s work has become the key to literacy and independence for thousands of blind and visually impaired people the world over.
The morale of Braille’s story is that what you may call adversity may well be an advantage to do something unique, and what may seem like an opposition could be an opportunity to unlock great potentials.
May God help us to convert all our adversities into advantages this year!
“See, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.” (Isaiah 48:10)_
Remain inspired!
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