How one promise led this artist to write ‘My Own Sacred Grove’ in 6 days

Once wrapped in the dark of a night in 2016, Angie Killian said she was cradling her infant daughter when a distinct melody entered her mind.

On this night, Killian had already tried rocking her daughter to sleep two or three times, she said. And so quickly adding some words to the new melody, Killian said she tried lulling her baby to sleep once again.

The song and lyrics she improvised then never really became important, the Latter-day Saint songwriter recently told the Deseret News. And they have certainly not become ones she’s publicly shared.

But what became instantly important to Killian was the feeling that overcame her in those late night hours, she said.

The feeling was like “this light that I desperately wanted to just hold on to with all my power and all my might,” Killian s