Tag: It is Well

And also with you

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. Belgian-English actress and singer Audrey Hepburn was born on this day in 1929. (died 1993) Star Wars may be the greatest fairy tale of our generation And I say that as a bonafied Tolkien geek who …

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365 Things I Believe: It is Well

This hymn was written after several traumatic events in Spafford’s life. The first was the death of his only son in 1871 at the age of four, shortly followed by the great Chicago Fire which ruined him financially (he had been a successful lawyer and had invested significantly in property in the area of Chicago …

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