It's Not Good for Man to be Alone
In my previous post I wrote about Helen Keller and how learning language gave her the tools to understand the world and communicate with others. Helen is known for her disabilities, namely that she was both blind and deaf, but what many don’t know is that this wonderful woman, who’s story would come to inspire the world, wasn’t born that way. She started life with both sight and hearing, even speaking at a young age, but lost both of these senses after a terrible sickness when she was a year and a half old. I find her story fascinating on many levels, first is that her unique situation reveals how language points to a Transcendent Mind. One who formed our minds and wired us to readily attribute symbols, words , to the various parts and pieces that we experience in the world. Helen was cut off from this because of her disabilities, and describes this time as being “lost at sea in a dense fog”. Her story shows us that without God giving us the interna...
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