God Is Always Near

What if the words your heart needs most arrive in the quiet hours before dawn?

For Dawn E. Scaff, they often did. The poems in God Is Always Near came to her in the middle of everyday life. Some arrived as she woke in the early morning hours. Others came as she listened to a Sunday sermon or waited for an event to begin. She wrote each one down just as it came: honest, simple, and centered on the God who never leaves.

Here, the heart that weeps learns that God weeps too. The one who feels bro...