Some songs are written in an afternoon.

Others take a lifetime.

Until the Day took me 47 years.

Our son, Raymond, passed away from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) when he was just three months old. One day he was here. The next, our world changed forever.

People often say that time heals all wounds. In our experience, that is not true.

Time teaches you how to carry the weight, but it never asks you to stop loving the person you lost.

Even after all these years, my wife and I still talk about that day as if it happened yesterday. We remember his smile. We remember how calm he was. We remember the dreams we had for the little boy who never had the chance to grow up.

We called him “Ray Ray,” a nickname that came naturally because he was named after my grandfather, Raymond. It is still the name that comes to mind whenever we think of him.

Writing the Song

For decades I could not write this song.

The emotions were simply too close.

When I finally sat down to write Until the Day, I went through at least twenty revisions. More than once I had to stop because I could not see through the tears. Even today, hearing the finished recording still brings me back to those moments.

The first lyric that came to me was:

It feels like yesterday…

That was not written for poetic effect.

It was simply the truth.

If there is one line that captures the heart of this song, it is this:

The hope of tomorrow is what pulls us through…
Until the day we are standing there with you.

For us, those words are more than a lyric. They are the foundation of our faith.

Grief, Faith, and Hope

This song is not only about grief.

It is about hope.

As Christians, my wife and I believe God's promise that death is not the end. We believe there will come a day when every tear is wiped away, every question is answered, and families separated by death will be reunited.

That promise does not erase the pain.

But it gives us the strength to carry it.

The Sound of the Story

I also wanted the music itself to reflect that journey. The arrangement begins with quiet reflection and gradually lifts, not because the loss becomes smaller, but because hope becomes stronger. Every instrument, every dynamic change, was chosen to honor both the sorrow of a mother who still grieves after 47 years and the promise that grief does not have the final word.

For Anyone Carrying Loss

My hope is that this song reaches anyone who has experienced the loss of a child, a spouse, a parent, or someone they love deeply.

Whether your faith looks like mine or not, I hope you hear this message:

You are not alone.

Love does not disappear when someone is gone.

And for those of us who believe, hope is not wishful thinking. It is confidence in a promise.

If Ray could hear this song today, there is only one thing I would want him to know:

We never stopped loving you.

We never stopped thinking about you.

And until the day we are standing there with you… we will carry you in our hearts.

Kris Boehm
KrispyMemphis