It Is Well (with my soul) Lampwork bracelet byLGD.com

About three years ago I designed a bracelet called "It Is Well" and I couldn't get the maker of the beads to recreate them. When I saw these little beauties I thought they would be perfect to bring It Is Well back to life. This will stay in my line as long as I can keep it in stock.

Below I've given the back story on It Is Well (if you didn't know). It's a truly lovely story and will warm your heart and most probably make you cry.

I wanted to make an update to this page. Recently, poking around youtube, I found a clip that felt would be so appropriate to place here (and remove the embedded song). I hope you enjoy it and feel your soul welling up as you hear the beautiful song, It Is Well...

In the 1870s Horatio Spafford was a successful Chicago lawyer and a close friend of evangelist Dwight L. Moody. Spafford had invested heavily in real estate, but the Chicago fire of 1871 wiped out his holdings. His son had died shortly before the disaster.

Two years later, Spafford and his family desperately needed a rest so in 1873 he planned a trip to Europe with his wife, Anna, and four daughters, Tanetta, Maggie, Annie and Bessie. While in Great Britain he also hoped to help Moody and Sankey with their evangelistic tour. Last minute business caused Spafford to delay his departure, but he sent his wife and four daughters on the S. S. Ville Du Havre as scheduled, promising to follow in a few days. On November 22 the ship was struck by the English ship Lochearn, and it sank in twelve minutes. Several days later the survivors landed at Cardiff, Wales, and Mrs. Spafford cabled her husband the brief message, "Saved alone."

When Horatio Spafford made the ocean crossing to meet his grieving wife, he sailed near the place where his four daughters had sunk to the ocean depths. There, in the midst of his sorrow, he wrote these unforgettable words that have brought solace to so many in grief:

1. When peace, like a river,
attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot,
Thou hast taught me to know,
“It is well, it is well with my soul”

Chorus: It is well (it is well)
with my soul (with my soul)
It is well, it is well with my soul

2. Though Satan should buffet,
though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ hath regarded
my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
(Repeat chorus)

3. My sin, oh the bliss
of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to His cross,
and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
(Repeat chorus)

4. And Lord haste the day
when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound,
and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.
(Repeat chorus)
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

After the tragedy, the Spaffords had two more children: a son, Horatio, born in 1876, and a daughter, Bertha, born two years later. Sadly, young Horatio contracted scarlet fever and died at the age of four.

Moved by a series of profound tragic losses, Chicago natives Anna and Horatio Spafford led a small American contingent in 1881 to Jerusalem to form a Christian utopian society known as the "American Colony." Colony members, later joined by Swedish Christians, engaged in philanthropic work amongst the people of Jerusalem regardless of their religious affiliation and without proselytizing motives--thereby gaining the trust of the local Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. During and immediately after World War I, the American Colony played a critical role in supporting these communities through the great suffering and deprivations of the eastern front by running soup kitchens, hospitals, orphanages and other charitable ventures.

He died on October 16, 1888 in Jerusalem of malaria, 4 days before his 60th birthday, and was buried there.

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More Photos:

Karen Hill Tribe hammered heart with designing, just below is an African Opal in coffee tones.

This was the original It Is Well, that I put up several years ago. I can't remember who bought it, but I've never been able to duplicate it. Maybe one of these days. If you click on the photo, it will take you to that original listing.