It Is Well with My Soul the book Chapter 1 Norway

This chapter opens in Stavanger, Norway, in 1846. Four-year-old Anna Larsson learns her family is leaving their small fishing town for America. The voyage, the first sight of New York, and the long journey to Chicago follow. In the New World she loses her brother to cholera, then her mother, then her father, and becomes an orphan taken in by the church. She changes her name to Lawson, grows into a young woman of faith and resilience, and meets the older lawyer Horatio Spafford, who waits until she is eighteen before asking her to marry him.This episode read by the author D.P.K.Maegraith from the novella It Is Well with My Soul: The Inspiring Story of Horatio Spafford, the Great Chicago Fire, and the Famous Hymn. Buy the book, learn about the film at https://itiswellwithmysoul.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.