Everybody, Always

When the spinal cord is injured, messages no longer get from the brain to the parts of our body below the injury. With any spina ...

be able to use were his tongue, his eyes, and his mind. Karl stayed in the hospital for months. He had stabilized, and the docto ...

says we’ll navigate much of our lives with them, just like Karl navigates his. Many of us have arms and feet we can move to help ...

had more than one hundred published decisions that have shaped the laws on criminal justice and victims’ rights, affecting milli ...

On our last day of law school, Karl said he was sending a car to pick up some friends and me. We climbed in, and the car took us ...

was probably not a lot different than what might happen when we get to heaven and look down on our lives, because there will be ...

CHAPTER 14 Land the Plane God doesn’t give us all the details, because He trusts us. Each of us has a place that feels like heav ...

They stopped making these airplanes sixty years ago, so they’re pretty frayed around the edges now. The way you know a Beaver en ...

school just felt kind of over to him. He had most of what he needed to get into college, and the last year felt like a punishing ...

seriously and wouldn’t die. Our house wasn’t just a home anymore; it was a Top Gun school. By the end of the year, Adam got a di ...

We leveled the wings a few thousand feet over the lake and started the approach. The entry point was as narrow as it looked from ...

slowed to a stop, and I cut the engine and unpeeled my hands from the controls. Adam and I sat silently for a couple of seconds, ...

We would need every inch of lake to get up and over the trees at the far end. Sometimes prayers are spoken, and other times they ...

hundred and twenty. The whole time all of this was happening, I was thinking this: Land. The. Plane. God isn’t always leading us ...

I’ve failed. From His point of view, that all rolls up into an unspoken whisper from Him I can almost hear saying, “You’ve got t ...

instructions about what to do next. Instead, He continues to be with us. He’s not entirely silent when He is either. He’s sent u ...

CHAPTER 15 A Welcome from Walter What we do with our love will become the conversations we have with God. I have a friend named ...

dozen helium balloons. Balloons are my go-to for everything when I don’t know what to bring. I take them to birthday parties, jo ...

impeachments, who got the rose from a bachelor, or who got the boot from a boss. What it seems He’ll care about most is how we t ...

pretend to care for people who are hurting. The way I know this is simple —I don’t do anything to help them. I’ll say I am too b ...