And the first thing you learn is that they don't tell their stories. They all seem to refuse to take any credit for acts that leave the rest of us breathless. What they say is, "Aw, shucks, anybody would have done it." It gets to be a sort of red flag: the ones who DO brag turn out not to have done anything heroic.
I can't prove it, of course, but I came away with the strongest feeling that God speaks directly to the hero: "Do this." It is a thing neither more nor less nor other than to be done, and it is done. He doesn't promise success. You just do it. It happens to people of any faith or none.
We may properly speculate from these experiences that God has His own communication channel to each of us. It cannot conceivably depend on the condition of our brain or any other organ.
Euthanists are materialists. To them it's all brain function, so they all dress up in white coats and play neurologist in order to discuss Terri. (What they will say, in whatever words, is: "This is a tragedy for all concerned. She should die.")
The rest of us are not obliged by our worldview to shut our minds tight and rule out God's channel to us. It's nice to think that regardless of the condition of her brain, God could speak to and comfort Terri as she was slowly and cruelly put to death.
Good summation.
We may properly speculate from these experiences that God has His own communication channel to each of us.
He is God, after all!
Very well put.
Interesting that Felos thinks he can communicate mind-to-mind with people who can't talk, but Felos didn't mention that a severely disabled Terri might have been in communication with God.