8,000 Songs from a Dark Room

When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a careless doctor's mistake left her permanently blind. She would never see a sunrise, a flower, or a human face. By any measure, her life could have become a long, bitter lament. Instead, she wrote 8,000 hymns. Fanny refused to let darkness have the final word. She learned to compose by memorizing her verses before dictating them, sometimes completing several hymns in a single day.…