Quite a story...particularly for that fellow by the road! Put yourself in his place.

It was very difficult for you to get to sleep last night, wasn't it? There was no way that you wanted to close your eyes. After all, those eyes had been sightless since you were born. Again and again you looked at everything in that little Judean home...the mud walls that had become an ever lighter beige over the years, the brown chairs and table, the red color of your father's cloak, the wrinkled hands of your mother as she served you your food. All the colors of the rainbow...blues, greens, purples...colors you had heard about, but could never have known before. No wonder you could not sleep.

As night fell, you stared out the window, looking up to the heavens and seeing those millions of twinkling stars yo…