Rose Marie spent several years contemplating the words of Humanae Vitae and Familiaris Consortio, which encourage the foundation of the family and the sanctity of life. She wished to put the beautiful words and teachings of these encyclicals to music, but remained uninspired. After twenty years of marriage and six bouncing baby boys, Rose Marie faced hospitalization following complications from her sixth childbirth. While recovering, she found herself comforting a woman in the bed next to her, who had recently undergone an abortion. This woman’s grief and repentance suddenly revealed to Rose Marie the music she had been hoping to write. “Our Catholic faith is a gift,” she says, “It is a blueprint for life, a blueprint for happiness.” To her, it was as if God had closed one door, but opened several windows. She lost the dream of having more children, but out of this was born the original work, “We Give Our Lives to You (One More Soul).”