The blind man sat on a street corner begging. His sign said simply, “Blind. Please help.” A stranger came up and said, “Let me change your sign,” as he wrote a message on the other side. At the end of the day, the blind man recognized the footsteps of the stranger, and called out to him saying, “People have been so much more generous today than ever before. What did you write on my sign?” The stranger replied, “I wrote ‘Today is the first day of spring, and I cannot see it.’”

            The blind man was helped that day by people who had a change in perspective. How many beautiful spring days have you witnessed, and then never given a second thought? We do take so much for granted, don’t we!

            American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter) once wrote, “Our creator would never have made us such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.” Surely with all He has done for us, He wants us to enjoy our existence beyond this life. What a waste if all of the memories and experiences of life simply end with death.