As someone disabled young who also loves music, Fanny Crosby has been a great example for me.

Fanny Crosby, blinded at six weeks, losing her father at six months, most would think that her start in life would make her miserable. However, Fanny did not feel that way. She wrote, “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.”

She realized that God used the tough places of life saying, “The most enduring hymns are born in the silences of the soul, and nothing must be allowed to intrude while they are being framed into language.”

Fanny is know for writing thousands of hymns, cantatas, and books. A list of these works is found here.

Fanny truly saw that God used her disability. According to Wikipedia, Biographer Annie Willis stated, “had it not been for her affliction she might not have so good an education or have so great an influence, and certainly not so fine a memory”.

God has a purpose and plan in our lives as well. He can take our disability and turn it into good. Romans 8:28-29, “²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

Fanny is an example of walking with God through life’s challenges.