[asa] Yahoo post--Helen Keller & God?

Hi everyone,

Someone posted a very interesting question on the
Yahoo! Q&A forum that I thought you might all wish to
ponder--any thoughts?

In Christ,
Christine

"Is Helen Keller (Christian), a deaf-blind mute since
childhood, proof that God is not an enculturated idea?
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. She was taught
to communicate by a dedicated teacher in a process
that has inspired people ever since. She learned to
speak, to read, to write. She went to college and
graduated with honors. She dedicated her entire life
to educating the world about its responsibility to its
disabled members. Until her death in 1968, Helen
Keller was consistently among the world's most admired
women, and her name was always on lists people made of
those women.

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.

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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 and Helen Keller
By The Rev. Barbara C. Crafton, BCCRAFTON@AOL.Com

© 1992, 2002 by The Rev. Barbara C. Crafton

1 minute ago
Helen Keller, NNDB profile.
http://www%c2%b7nndb%c2%b7com/people/074/0000469..."

"For we walk by faith, not by sight" ~II Corinthians 5:7

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Received on Sun Feb 10 01:06:47 2008