I’m jumping the gun a tad today; tomorrow being Advent II is the one focused on peace. But I’ve been thinking about peace for a while and it is at the forefront of my mind right now.
“It Is Well with my Soul” was written in 1873, by a
lawyer-hymnist named Horatio Spafford. Spafford had experienced multiple
losses—death of his four-year-old son, financial collapse following the Great
Chicago Fire and then the deaths of all four of his daughters when the ship on
which they were sailing to England sank.
That’s a lot of grief for anyone to carry.
But we none of us get out of this life without grief. Even in Advent. And even though “It Is Well with my Soul” isn’t Advent-specific, this is what I’m hearing in my heart this weekend. Here is the choir of the New Apostolic Church of Southern Africa singing it.
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