This was the first piece of music I ever wrote.  I was thirty years old and musical notation had not been part of my study growing up.  I had been away from studying music for thirteen years and the hand-written copy of this number looked like it.  I was in the process of a life-altering experience (divorce) and my daughter was headed to Disneyland with her dad.  Ouch!  However, would I fill the silence and the ache?  I had been asked by the Stake Relief Society to play an organ solo at a stake gathering.  The organ was a pipe organ and I had had very little experience (actually none)…