"Oh, what a happy child am I although I cannot see,
I have resolved that in this world contented I will be"
"How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't,"
"So weep or sigh because I'm blind,"
"I cannot nor I won't!"

This poem was written by Fanny Crosby at 8 years of age. I have this in my Bible. She wrote over 8,000 hymns in her lifetime and many of them are in your church hymnal. Hymns such as "Blessed Assurance" and "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior". Her failed eyesight was due to a doctor giving her the wrong medication in her eyes as a child. No bitterness in her heart about this. This is such an encouragement to my heart and I hope it is to yours.