hmmm…..
Last night our church family had a Thanksgiving dinner in our fellowship hall. But that wasn’t the main attraction. A pastor from a nearby church came to present a program on Fanny Crosby. Most people don’t know a whole lot about her except that she wrote one of the all time favorite hymns, “Blessed Assurance”.
Fanny (Frances Jane) was born in 1820. She lost her sight as an infant when a doctor treated an infection in her eyes with a hot poultice. This cured the infection but left her sightless for life. Fanny was schooled by her grandmother’s encouragement and as a teenager had the opportunity to go to a school for the blind. She wrote her first poem when she was eight and over her lifetime wrote over 8,000 hymns. Pretty amazing, huh?
She said the following about her blindness:
"It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me."
If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind...for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour."
Next time I am inclined to make excuses for my inability to accomplish a goal, I think I will remember Fanny Crosby and her contribution to Christians all over the world.
hmmm…..
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