The True Story That Inspired This Popular Hymn

Melissa Sirois
2 min readDec 22, 2021
Photo by Viktor Jakovlev on Unsplash

“Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to know
It is well, it is well, with my soul.”

Horatio Spafford penned those famous words while crossing the Atlantic to meet his wife Anna in South Wales. She had recently sent her husband a telegram which read, “Saved alone…”

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Melissa Sirois

Marketing and journalism grad working in corporate communications. Funny person. Connector of dots. I write about life as I see it.