Requested by Teddy Kiara–and you’re right, Teddy: it’s very hard to keep a dry eye while watching this.
Narrated by Hugh Bonneville, backed up by the Tabernacle Choir and a cast of re-enactors, It Is Well With My Soul was written by Horatio Spafford who, in 1873, after he’d lost most of his wealth in the Great Chicago Fire, then lost his four children in a shipwreck.
That was when he composed the hymn.
Mr. and Mrs. Spafford were to have further troubles in their lives (only two of their seven children survived to adulthood).
But as you will hear, they never gave up.
[16 minutes, but well worth your time: very inspiring]