Songfacts®:

• Written by Nashville songwriters Kim Williams and Doug Johnson, this narrative number about the redemption of a prostitute was the 2003 Country Music Association Song of the Year.
• The song was released on the inspirational record label Word Records, and it became the first Christian label release to reach #1 on the Billboard Country Singles chart. It was Travis' 16th #1 single in total, and his first since "Whisper My Name" in 1994. It was also Travis' highest charting single to date on the Hot 100.
• The story recounted in this song is symbolic of Travis' own conversion. He explained to Christian Music Today: "I came from a background that was heavy with drugs and alcohol and arrests. I've heard people speak about how a vision or something hit them, like a light turned on, right then and there. For me, I was into my early twenties, and I went to bed one night and just started reading the Bible. That's how the slow process of coming to understand that I needed to know more about the Word of God began, and then coming to the point of accepting Christ and water baptism."