It is well with my soul

The new bgm music I chose for my blog, time and time again this song has picked me up and comforted me even through the most deepest sorrows and hardships. It always reminds me, eventhough I go through this suffering, it is only momentary. It will pass and it cannot harm my soul because God is with me.

I was even more touched when recently I learned how this song was composed. It was written Horatio Spafford after several traumatic events in his life.

The first was the death of his only son and that is followed by the great Chicago fire that ruined him financially and forced him to file for bankruptcy(he had been a successful lawyer). Two years later, the ship in which his wife and four daughters were in collided with another vessel and quickly sank, killing all four of his daughters. Shortly after, Spafford travelled to meet his grieving wife and on top of the waters where his daughters perished, he was inspired to write these lyrics:

When peace like a river, attendeth my way

When sorrows like sea billows roll

Whatever my lot, you have taught me to say

It is well,

It is well with my soul

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It is well, with my soul

It is well, it is well with my soul

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Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come

Let this blessed assurance control

that Christ has regarded my helpless estate

And has shed his own blood for my soul

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My sin, O the joy, of this glorious thought

my sin, not in part, but the whole

is nailed to the cross, I bear it no more

Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! O, my soul!

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And Lord, haste the day, when my faith shall be sight

The clouds be rolled back as a scroll

The trump shall resound! And the Lord shall descend

Even so,

it well with my soul!