Tami Creamer never thought the song she wrote with Derena Bell, “I Know That My Savior Loves Me,” would be included in the new hymnbook, “Hymns—For Home and Church,” of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Creamer, who has lived all over the world with her husband, LaMar Creamer, and their five children, now lives in the Washington Utah East Stake. She has played the piano since she was 4 years old and composed her first song at the age of 10.
Twenty-five years ago, Creamer was asked to write a song for Primary-aged children to sing at a stake conference of her stake at the time, the Huntsville Utah Stake.
The stake Primary music chair asked that the song be about the Savior, Jesus Christ. Creamer spent a lot of time in thought and prayer, and she decided to write about one of her favorite scripture stories, 3 Nephi 17, where Christ visits the American continent and blesses the little children.
“This is such a tender story,” Creamer said. “As I started writing, I was thinking about what a beautiful place those people of Nephi were in, and how wonderful it must have been for them to see the Savior. What an amazing experience for each of them, especially the little ones, as He let them sit on His knee and blessed them and wept openly for them.”
As she was pondering, praying, and writing, Creamer would look out her windows to the beautiful views around her in Utah’s Ogden Valley.
“I realized that we are in as much of a beautiful place as they were, and even though we can’t see the Savior face to face and have Him minister to us and bless us, He still does that through our loved ones. That was the basis for this song,” she wrote to the Church News.
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