, Background. ✨This hymn ✨was written ✨after traumatic ✨events in ✨Spafford's life. ... ✨Shortly ✨afterwards, as ✨Spafford traveled ✨to meet his ✨grieving wife, he ✨was inspired to ✨write these words ✨as his ship passed ✨near where his ✨daughters had ✨died. Bliss called ✨his tune Ville du ✨Havre, from the ✨name of the ✨stricken vessel.