An older woman faces a difficult medical concern — and yet when you sit with her, something strikes you immediately. She is calm. Not brittle, forced calm. The deep, unhurried calm of someone who has found a resting place the circumstances cannot reach. She looks at you with quiet wonder: “Pastor Noel, I don’t understand how I’m so calm about this. I really don’t. But I know it’s God.”
Tag: Horatio Spafford
The Story of Peace: “It Is Well With My Soul”
“Horatio Spafford stood on a ship crossing the Atlantic, sailing over the spot where his four daughters had drowned. There, he wrote ‘It Is Well With My Soul.'”