As with many of my own compositions, when I started envisioning the outline of this piece I started with a couple of melodic fragments that I tried to work into one cohesive whole. This piece is meant to be nothing more than a simple meditation, with no aim at pretension or technical virtuosity. I actually had the title of the piece figured out before I had written it down, which is rare for me, which seemed to make the creative process flow much more smoothly than it normally does. It translates loosely to "Blessing for a teacher."

In performance, there should be a distinction between the two types of arpeggios used. The "lightning bolt" symbols denote "type 1" broken arpeggios, while the more traditional rolled chords should be achieved with as smooth an action as possible: when I play this, I use an open hand and roll gently and unhurriedly through the notes. The section marked with "A Baylor Blessing" is based off Lynnette Geary's carillon arrangement of the Baylor school spirit song/poem of the same name, though I have altered it slightly.

—Austin Ferguson