The peace, comfort, and hope God gave me made me feel like I really was walking in his light; those spiritual blessings were constant reminders that God really did love me. He loved me enough to tuck his Word in my heart so I'd have it when my eyes could no longer read it.

I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.

I choose Hosea. Oh, there's no book of the Bible which more beautifully and more painfully demonstrates how very much God loves us.

God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human experience. And, yes, it does give us clear boundaries of what we should and shouldn't do so we can live our best lives.

I still feel the same way about God's Word as I did when I was 15 and lost my sight.

Sometimes when I read Scripture, I'm trying to learn something or teach something or change something in my life.

Because God loves us, he gives us lyrics to sing when our hearts can't form words.