Tag: aviation
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A day in the life
We wake before the sun crests the horizon behind our back porch. The roaming roosters begin their calls while the myriad dogs rest from their late night spars. Our morning cup of tea requires milk, less for flavor or heat than for assurance that we’ve removed any ants who may have drowned in it. Most […]
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A picture emerges
Floating puzzle pieces once haunted my mind when I considered the future. Bits of who I was, they simply didn’t fit any life I could imagine. Eight years ago, they suddenly fell into place when I met Slick. Immediately I recognized the path God had planned all along. In recent days I’ve seen that happen […]
Donna Douglass
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Lord, You know
(As told to me by an instructor at Mission Aviation Fellowship’s Nampa, ID headquarters. A true story of his flying overseas.) “Mom?” “Yes, honey,” the missionary wife turned to see her normally energetic twelve-year-old calmly looking right at her. It almost startled her. “It’s going to be all right,” she said. “Jesus told me it […]
Donna Douglass
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the solidity of pigs
A cloud of dust trailed the little airplane as it struggled to become airborne before disappearing below the curve of the hill. Wind drowned out the engine for a long moment before the trusty craft reappeared, skimming above square patches of Idaho farmland. Tim, Dave and their trusty 6-seater Cessna 206, the backbone of mission […]
Donna Douglass
Cleverly Disguised 