The Swedish text of Day by Day (Blott en Dag) was written by Carolina Sandell, the daughter of a Lutheran minister in 1865. It was written after the grievings of her heart, having lost her father in a drowning incident when she was just 26. Her texts were then popularised through simple, yet beautiful melodies composed for them by Oscar Ahnfelt in 1872. Their hymns went on to inspire kings and influence the revival that swept across Scandinavia after 1850. The English translation of this hymn was written by Andrew L. Skoog, a Swedish immigrant to the U.S., and started appearing in American hymnals in the latter half of the 1920s.