The Boy Whose Fingers Were Made for a Purpose He Could Not Yet See

Louis Braille was three years old when a leather awl slipped in his father's saddle-making shop in Coupvray, France, and pierced his eye. Infection spread to the other. By five, the boy lived in total darkness. What no one in that small village could have known — what even Louis himself would not understand for years — was that the Almighty had already fashioned something extraordinary into those small hands.…