There are truths we spend our whole lives trying to believe.

And then there are truths we knew instinctively as children—before the world complicated them, before loss and fear taught us to brace ourselves.

JESUS iS ALWAYS WiTH ME is one of those truths.

This song was born out of a longing to return to a faith that doesn’t need to be defended or qualified—only trusted. A faith that sounds simple because it is simple. Not shallow. Not naïve. Just deeply, stubbornly true.

For those of us who have known absence—of family, of safety, of certainty—the promise of God’s nearness is not a small thing. It’s everything. It’s the difference between surviving and resting. Between striving and belonging.

The Scriptures tell us that God sets the lonely in families. That He is a Father to the fatherless. That He does not leave us as orphans.

This song is a quiet reminder of that reality.

Not because life is easy.

Not because the questions go away.

But because even in the questions, even in the ache, we are not alone.

Jesus is with us in the morning.

With us in the night.

With us in our joy and in our grief.

Always.

And sometimes the bravest thing we can do is simply say it out loud—and believe it again.

— Zawadi