The Woman Who Saw Light Without Eyes

Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's error. She lived ninety-four years in total darkness — and wrote over eight thousand hymns celebrating the faithfulness of God.

When asked if she resented her blindness, Crosby replied that it was the best thing that could have happened to her. "When I get to heaven," she once said, "the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior."

That is the kind of confidence David was reaching for in Psalm 36. "Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies." David was not writing from comfort when he penned these words. The psalm opens surrounded by the wickedness of the godless. Yet even there, he could see something vast and unshakable — the love of the Almighty stretching beyond every horizon.

Fanny Crosby could not see a sunrise or a child's face or the pages of her own hymnal. But she had found what David described: the fountain of life, the river of delights, the light that makes all other light possible. "In your light we see light," the psalmist wrote. Crosby proved it across nearly a century of worship. Real sight has never depended on working eyes. It depends on knowing the One who is Light itself — and discovering that His steadfast love is more than enough to see by.