Before the main sermon notes the guest pastor at church yesterday told us a story of a famous hymn.
Horatio Spafford sent his daughters and wife before him, due to a last minute change of plans, on a trip to England by boat. That boat drowned, his four daughters all died and his wife sent him a telegram of two words "saved alone".
Horatio went by boat to be with his grieving wife and on the way the captain showed him the spot where his daughters had drowned. Horatio then went down to his cabin and wrote "It is well with my soul".
On a personal note, earlier last year, a visiting pastor's wife sat next to my wife and I and, though she sung all hymns, she sang this one very loudly. It turns out she had lost her little child very recently.
After church, while driving, my wife reminded me of our first miscarriage because my wife is due compensation for an incident in 2022 where my wife and her sister were driving and a BMW driver smashed into the car at speed and drove off, giving my wife and her sister whiplash. The man has been brought to justice but the medical professional who dealt with my wife after the claim was very confident the smash had caused her first miscarriage.
It is an amazing hymn and may we remember it in life's tragedies-not as a slogan of denial, but as a confession of faith in the God who rules all things wisely and lovingly for His glory and our salvation.
Below an accurate image of the lady singing imagined by chatgpt and an imagined scene of Horatio writing the hymn on the sea where his daughters drownes
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