What Are You Doing With Your Pain?

A deeper look into the life of Chicago lawyer, Horatio Spafford, gives us his heartbreaking interlude with loss. This man bravely penned the beloved hymn It Is Well after enduring the loss of his young family in a tragic accident.
I have forever been intrigued with this story, simply for the huge amount of submission to God's sovereignty it requires. The painful, dark place he found himself in was an oppurtunity for further pain...or an oppurtunity to heal. He choose, with God's help, to heal.

Have you ever prayed for God's will, then secretly expected your own plan to happen? I can answer yes, a million times!

I'm learning that my will and plans pale in comparision to His. So the most important thing I can do is allow my heart to get so lost in His that I can do nothing but WANT His perfect will. I must not react in hatred, vengence or worry. Unforgiveness cannot reign over forgiveness. Though it never comes easily, and at times I lack understanding, healing CAN come. Healing comes ONLY thru Jesus, nothing else can satisfy that part of my heart.

Even at the point of your life-altering loss or pain, you can go to a quiet place and pen the words It Is Well!

I am going to do something good... for Jesus... with my pain. I hope that is what you choose, too.

It Is Well
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

The elder Norman Paslay I used to say, "The Will of God, at any cost."


"Is it well with thee?... And she answered, It is well." -2 Ki. 4:26

"Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul." -Psa. 146:1