“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105 It was dark (in the ER). As I lay, the wind and waves washed over me—a torrent whose spray alone seemed enough to drown a man. My mast had fallen, along with its tattered sail, each...

There was a time when I didn’t like them. I couldn’t understand the appeal, and I certainly didn’t get why people called them “man’s best friend.” To me, they were just animals, nothing more. But all of that changed. It wasn’t a dramatic moment. No lightning bolt, no...

An attitude indicator (also called an artificial horizon) is a primary flight instrument used in aircraft. There are moments in time, like the sudden glimmer of an orange twilight sun reflecting off the sheet metal of our aircraft’s nose, that remain etched in my...