Back in the summer 2018, when the kids and I were looking forward to doing American history, I decided to pick an American hymn writer for our school year hymn. Fanny Crosby has an amazing story. Blind since infancy, she nevertheless wrote over 8,000 hymns (!), some with her pastor, Robert Lowry (who penned the Muller family favorite “Nothing But the Blood of Jesus!”) and was a vocal abolitionist. I had already picked “Blessed Assurance” as our 2018-2019 Charis Classical Academy hymn when our social worker, Kira, called and asked me how we felt about taking a child with disabilities for our first placement. We were actively learning “Blessed Assurance” as a family when Annie started coming to visit us for 2-3 day stints that September, so naturally we would sing it to her as we rocked her and gave her breathing treatments before bed. I love how this expresses the assurance she has as a child of God regardless of all the uncertainties in her first few years of life, the reality that her story is more than what happened to her to bring her into our family, and how it reflects her “happy and blessed” disposition!
- Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.- This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
- This is my story, this is my song,
- Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels, descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.- This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
- This is my story, this is my song,
- Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.- This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
- This is my story, this is my song,