There are seasons in life when the path forward feels obscured. When the noise of the world — and the quieter, more insidious noise of doubt and fear and old lies we have believed too long — makes it difficult to hear the voice that matters most. When the gap between who we are told we are in Christ and who we feel ourselves to be in the hard, ordinary moments of daily life seems impossibly wide.
It is precisely into those seasons that Walking in Favor: Stepping into Grace Devotional Poetry speaks.
Sharon Swain has written something rare and genuinely beautiful — a collection of devotional poetry that meets readers in the middle of their uncertainty and walks with them, step by step, into the freedom, identity, and grace that God’s Word promises are already theirs. Studio of Books is delighted to announce that this luminous and deeply personal work is now live and available to readers everywhere.
Poetry has always been the language of the soul. Long before devotionals were books on nightstands, they were songs and psalms — words arranged not merely to inform but to resonate, to lodge themselves in the heart, to be returned to in the dark hours when prose feels too flat to carry the weight of what we are feeling. Swain understands this instinctively. Her poetry does not lecture or instruct from a distance. It draws close. It speaks in the intimate register of someone who has walked the same uncertain ground and found, in the middle of it, a God who was already there — pursuing, chasing, lavishing favor on His beloved with a generosity that defies every lie the enemy has told about His character.
That is the animating truth of this collection: that God does not wait for us to find our way to Him. He hunts us down with grace. He pursues us with favor. His stepping stones are already laid across every difficult season — and this book is an invitation to look down and discover that you have been standing on them all along.
The journey Swain maps through these pages moves with intention and care. Readers will find themselves walking out of wrong thinking and stepping into their true identity in Christ — not the identity constructed from failure and fear and other people’s expectations, but the real one, the eternal one, the one God declares over His children in His Word. They will walk out of the enemy’s lies — those familiar, well-worn falsehoods about God’s distance, His disappointment, His withholding — and step into the freedom of Truth that cuts those lies loose at the root. They will walk out of the noise — the relentless, exhausting noise of a world in uncertainty — and step into the still, small voice that has been speaking all along, waiting patiently for the quiet in which it can be heard.
Each poem is a stepping stone. Each stepping stone is an act of grace.
What makes Walking in Favor so particularly suited to this moment is the honesty with which Swain acknowledges the world her readers are living in. She does not write from a place of removed spiritual comfort, offering tidy assurances from a safe distance. She writes as someone who knows what it is to get stuck — to have the enemy’s lies feel more immediate and convincing than God’s promises, to have the uncertainty of the world press in so heavily that the certainty of knowing Jesus feels like something you have to fight to hold onto rather than something that holds you.
And she writes as someone who has found, in the fighting, that God’s faithfulness is not diminished by the struggle. That His favor reaches into the stuck places. That His grace is sufficient not just in the triumphant moments but in the quiet, difficult, uncertain ones — which is, of course, where most of life is actually lived.
Walking in Favor is a devotional companion for the reader who needs more than information — who needs encounter. It is for the believer walking through a hard season who needs to be reminded of who they are and Whose they are. It is for the woman who has believed lies about God’s character for long enough and is ready to step into Truth. It is for anyone who longs to experience, not just intellectually understand, the deep and pursuing love of Jesus — His Peace, His Power, His Praise, His Presence, and His Purpose made real in the texture of an everyday life.
Now is the time, as Swain says with beautiful urgency throughout these pages. Not when the season changes or the uncertainty lifts or the circumstances improve. Now. In this season, on this path, with these stepping stones already laid before you by a God whose grace has never stopped reaching for you.
Walking in Favor: Stepping into Grace Devotional Poetry by Sharon Swain is now live from Pen In-Charge.
His favor is already pursuing you. His grace has already gone ahead. Step in — and walk.