This reflective setting of an original text for treble choir was composed in memory of Erin Browning. At age 7, Erin was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare type of cancer, on September 11th, 2001. Over the next months and years, she and her family showed incredible love and grace, and Erin's story spread before she passed away in November 2004, age 10.

I heard Erin's story from a friend of a friend, Erin's sister Mary Beth. At the time, I was writing a song for the Greensboro Youth Chorus (GYC) and when I met Mary Beth and the Brownings, my approach changed entirely. In the span of a day, I had the outline of a new song, and from there, the music almost wrote itself. Ann Doyle led the GYC’s premiere in spring 2008, with the Browning family in the audience.

The SSAA recording above is the world premiere performance; I revised the piece in 2022, revisiting it with a new eye and more experience as a composer. The emotional core of the music remains the same, as Erin's story has stayed with me all these years.

The wind ensemble version was commissioned and premiered by the Southwest Guilford High School Concert Band in 2009, Kenny Butler conducting (High Point, NC).