One Easter years ago, Jill and Sy Miller heard a radio message of peace - peace that would surely come when every person lived it. Jill was inspired to write the words to this now familiar song, and her husband wrote the music. A song leader took it to a camp where 180 youngsters sang it, and shared it when they returned to their homes, schools, and churches. Many organizations began including it in their programs. It is now a very popular song all over the world.
Many churches sing it at the end of their services.
Personal peace did not come easily for Jill. Motherless at three, rejected by a stepmother by five, she became a ward of the Kansas City Juvenile Court at the age of nine. After an unhappy adolescence, she left Missouri for Hollywood and, as Jill Jackson, became a heroine in a movie. After her unhappy first marriage ended, she reached total despair. It was then that she reached out and found inspiration.