His Indescribable God

“Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!” – 2 Corinthians 9:15

Helen Keller was afflicted at the age of 19 months with an illness that left her blind and deaf. She was examined by Alexander Graham Bell at the age of 6. As a result, he sent to her a 20-year-old teacher, Anne Sullivan (Macy) from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, which Bell’s son-in-law directed. Sullivan, a remarkable teacher, remained with Keller from March 1887 until her own death in October 1936.
Within months Keller had learned to feel objects and associate them with words spelled out by finger signals on her palm, to read sentences by feeling raised words on cardboard, and to make her own sentences by arranging words in a frame. During 1888–90 she spent winters at the Perkins Institution learning Braille. Then she began a slow process of learning to speak under Sarah Fuller of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf, also in Boston.
Helen wrote to famous preacher Phillips Brooks and reflected a spirit of thankfulness that characterized her life:

“It fills my heart with joy to know that God loves me so much that he wishes me to live always, and that he gives me everything that makes me happy—loving friends, a precious little sister, sweet flowers, and the warm sunshine, and best of all, a mind that can think and enjoy and a heart that can love and sympathize.”

A heart centered on Jesus is a heart of gratitude.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.” – Helen Keller

“Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!” – Psalm 106:1