An Old Chinese Legend

        This is the story of a wise old man.  He was considered to be an odd sort of fellow because of the way he had of looking at things.  One time one of his horses ran away.  His friends rallied around him to console him.  "That's too bad," they said.  "We are sorry for you."
        "How do you know it is bad?" the old man asked them.
          A few days later, the horse returned.  He had two wild horses with him.  This brought the neighbors on the run.  "Good, good!" they said, rejoicing with him.
         "How do you know it is good?" the old man asked them.
          They could not answer that one either.  So they said no more.
           In training the two wild horses, the man's son was thrown and his leg was broken.  Again the neighbors came to commiserate with him. "Oh that's too bad," they said.  "We sympathize with you in your misfortune."
           "How do you know that this is bad?" the old man said again.
            The very next day a war lord and his army came through the land conscripting all able bodied young men to fight for them.  But not the son of the old man.  He was not able bodied.

MORAL:  There is neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.  Hidden within each challenge is a blessing in disguise.