Miss Shawn of a web-based Christian forum mentioned that as she read about Helen Keller she was moved at how she knew God before she even knew a language. One of Helen's friends was Phillips Brooks who was a famous clergyman of his generation in America at one time. Helen was blind and deaf from the age of two, she had lived a life of isolation, unable to speak words she could not hear, unable to know what a word was. So, how did she know God? In one of her letters, Helen told Bishop Brooks that she had always known about God, even before she had any words. Even before she could call God anything, she knew God was there. She didn't know what it was. God had no name for her -- nothing had a name for her. She had no concept of a name. But in her darkness and isolation, she knew she was not alone. Someone was with her. She felt God's love. And when she received the gift of language and heard about God, she said she already knew. Phillips Brooks was thrilled by this. This was the God he knew.
Helen Keller had always known there was a God
There are some who don't believe in God, but Helen knew about Him. Now this is what is interesting to me. Because people say that others impose and push their believe on people to make them believe. But Helen didn't have any Christian, or anyone there to "impose" their belief on her and she just innately knew there was a God!!!! Imagine That So, my question is how can someone explain that? I would say that it was the Holy Spirit who was with her and speaking and talking with her, how else would she know God in such a way.
In Helen's book My Religion, she describes the following experience:
“I sense a holy passion pouring
down from the springs of Infinity. . . . Bound to suns and planets by invisible
cords, I feel the flame of eternity in my soul. Here, in the midst of the
every-day air, I sense the rush of ethereal rains. I am conscious of the
splendor that binds all things of earth to all things of heaven — immured by
silence and darkness, I possess the light which shall give me vision a thousand
fold when death sets me free.”
Helen Keller is describing the
experience of a transcendental level of the mind. Relating it to “Infinity,”
she describes it as “the flame of eternity in my soul.” In this deep inward
place, she experiences “the splendor that binds all things of earth to all
things of heaven.” Even though she is blind and deaf, confined by “silence and
darkness,” she nevertheless experiences an inner light that transcends death.
