From "The Place of Knowing" by Emma Lou Warner Thayne

After telling of seeing Helen Keller "hear" the organ in the Tabernacle when she was a little girl:

"I believed. I believed it all - the seeing without seeing, the hearing without hearing, the going by feel toward something holy, something that could make her cry, something that could move me, alter me, something as unexplainable as a vision or a mystic connection, something entering the pulse of a little girl, something that no matter what would never go away. What it had to do with Joseph Smith or his vision or his gospel I never would really understand - all I know to this day is that I believe.

With that mystic connection, I believe in it. I get impatient with people's interpretations of it, with dogma and dictum, but somewhere deep inside me and far beyond impatience or indifference there is that insistent, confounding, so help me, sacred singing - 'All is well! / All is well!' My own church, inhabited by my own people. With my own feel for its doctrines, it is my lap, my song - my church. I would be cosmically orphaned without it."

I heard Emma Lou speak at a gathering my friend Ninny Beth put together years ago. I felt connected to this woman then. And now, as I read this, I feel I found a soul mate. These words are me too. I'm so glad she wrote them down.