The Inspirer With Light In Her Hands

Nobody wishes to live in the dark, but that was how the Inspirer lived for most of her young life. Without light and without color, she’s been thrust into a world of darkness, a dark pit where nothing ever happens and nothing is ever hoped for.

Alone and lost, the Inspirer felt like an animal roaming a dark forest, a weak and disoriented animal that is prey to wild beasts and strong monsters that ruled the darkness around her.

Many were the times she felt she couldn’t breathe, times when it’s as though she were trapped in a cage that is both narrow and cold, keeping her from grasping anything that could make her feel alive.

Who am I? Where am I? What’s this darkness all about and why do I feel like I don’t belong here?

“You don’t,” a voice that wasn’t really like a voice answered. For the first time in her life, someone spoke, someone broke the silence.

The voice kept on speaking, but the Inspirer wasn’t able to understand. “What are you saying?” the Inspirer asked over and over again.

Failing to receive the reply she wanted, she would burst out in frustration. Why speak when she couldn’t understand? Why give her hope when no hope could be achieved?

But just when everything else seemed futile, the Inspirer felt someone reaching out for her hand.

The Inspirer was afraid. She wanted to hold back. But the hand of the one reaching out to her was warm and steady. This hand made her feel something she never felt before.

TRUST. She could trust this hand, and so she let it take her own hand. She opened her palm and felt strong fingers caressing it. A straight stroke, a curved one, a funny line here and there.

Those fingers danced upon her hand and she wasn’t afraid. At last, something magical happened, something she never expected at all! The fingers that danced gave out light. Light broke through her darkness and she could finally see!

She saw that the world wasn’t dark after all. Only her world was. Only her eyes were dim.

She saw that the world wasn’t really cold. Only her world was. Only her hands were lacking in friends to reach out to.

But now that her teacher has done her magic, now that she freed her from her own small world, she could finally understand.

A whole new world had been opened before her, a whole new world of light!

Before long, her own hands learned the magic of her teacher. And as light emanated from her own hands, another world in darkness was able to understand. Another world was able to learn of hope, of friendship, and of true courage.

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The INSPIRER with Light in her hands was none other than HELEN KELLER, blind and deaf physically yet sees and hears much better through the power of her positive mind and the warmth of her simple and courageous heart.
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Quotes from Helen Keller:

“The treasures of a new, beautiful world were laid at my feet, and I took in pleasure and information at every turn. I lived myself into all things. I was never still a moment, my life was as full of motion as those little insects that crowd a whole existence into one brief day. I met people who talked with me by spelling into my hand, and thought in joyous sympathy leaped up to meet thought, and behold, a miracle had been wrought! The barren places between my mind and the minds of others blossomed like a rose.”

“Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers,’There is joy in self forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.”

“I am too happy in this world to think much about the future…”

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