MAIN THEME IS: WHY AM I HERE?                                 

TITLE: LESSONS FROM LOUIS BRAILLE’S TEENAGE YEARS

The quote for today’s devotional is:  

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude” - Scott Hamilton

Devotional:

Louis Braille invented the braille machine for the blind in 1824.  HE was born on Jan 4, 1809 in Coupuray, France. He became blind at age 3 while playing with tools in his father’s harness shop. He started his education by sitting in classes in the village school. At age 10 he was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris.

At the Royal Institute, he was taught using embossed print letters but this made reading slow and of course you can imagine, writing was close to impossible. He was however inspired after an army captain visited to demonstrate “night writing”, a method used by soldiers to communicate slightly on the battlefield using a raised dots alphabet.  Though Braille initially found the system complicated, by age fifteen, he modified it to a six-dot cell from a twelve-dot system. This is still in use today.

Here are a few of the lessons from Louis Braille’s teenage years:

1. Innovation through Adversity: His creation of the Braille system was a direct response to his own needs and the needs of others like him.
2. Perseverance and Determination: Despite his challenge, Braille was determined to read and write, now he has empowered millions of visually impaired individuals.
3. Resourcefulness: With limited resources, he improved an existing system.
4. Resilience: Rather than be deterred, Braille was motivated.
5. Visionary: He envisioned and made reality a world where blind people could independently read.

Here are a few reflective questions:

1. Is there anything I see as impossible to achieve?
2. Are there challenges I can birth solutions for?

Let us pray:

 Lord, I thank you for filling me with your spirit. Help me to think of possibilities even in a difficult situation. Amen

Please say these words of affirmation. Say them, mean them, own them and live them

• I am here to bring solutions to world problems. 
• I am a visionary being. 

Do have a productive day. Take good care of yourself. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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