Songfacts®:

• This Jeffrey Steele and Steve Robson-penned song was recorded by Rascal Flatts for their album Me and My Gang. Released as the third single from the set, it reached #1 on the Country chart in December 2006, their sixth chart-topper.
• Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus told the Canada radio station The New 92.5 Fresh FM the story of the song: "Jeffrey Steele wrote it, and it was pitched to us," he said. "A lot of people think it was about his son who was killed, but he actually wrote it about his daughter who was graduating. And it was just so simple but said in such a nice, unique way, that went so great with the melody, we knew we had to be the ones to put our voices to it."
• The song featured in the 2010 movie Letters to God.
• Steve Robson came into town to write with Jeffrey Steele on the same day that Steele's 13-year-old daughter, Justine, accused her father of writing songs for her older sisters but never for her. "Steve played me this music [that day], and when it was over, I asked him to play it again," Steele recalled to The Boot. "It just captivated me. I just heard words coming. I started writing this song, not really thinking about writing Justine a song. I started singing, 'I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow' … It just had a feel to it. I thought, 'Wow! This is about somebody who is going somewhere with their life.' Then it dawned on me … this is Justine's song! This is it!"
  
  "Once I got locked into it, "My Wish" came to me for the title. I was just thinking about how crazy the world is right now for a kid to grow up in," he continued. "I started writing it like I wanted her to know whatever she did in life, somebody was thinking about her all the time. Someone was always behind her no matter what."
  
  "When I got home after recording the demo that day, I said, 'I wrote you a song today,'" Steele added. "She goes, 'Yeah, right.' I played it for her on the stereo. She looked at me and goes, "'t sounds really country.' [Laughs] I told her that this song - whatever happens with it - this is her song. She just kind of said, 'Yeah … thanks, Dad' - with that teenager attitude, you know?"