Once there was a family that was not rich and not
poor.
They lived in Ohio in a small country house. One
night they
all sat down for dinner, and there was a knock at the
door.
The father went to the door and opened it.
There stood an old man in tattered clothes, with
ripped
pants and missing buttons. He was carrying a basket
full of
vegetables. He asked the family if they wanted to buy
some
vegetables from him. They quickly did because they
wanted
him to leave.
Over time, the family and the old man became friends.
The man brought vegetables to the family every week.
They
soon found out that he was almost blind and had
cataracts on
his eyes. But he was so friendly that they learned to
look
forward to his visits and started to enjoy his
company.
One day as he was delivering the vegetables, he said,
"I had the greatest blessing yesterday! I found a
basket of
clothes outside my house that someone had left for
me."
The family, knowing that he needed clothes, said, "How
wonderful!"
The old blind man said, "The most wonderful part is
that I found a family that really needed the clothes."
