Upfront February 6, 2012 Issue

Safety that's guaranteed

Jeff Ward-Bailey, Staff Editor

How can we keep ourselves and our loved ones safe?

It’s a natural question to ask. That’s why we have seat belts and airbags in cars, and why people take self-defense classes to learn how to fight off a would-be attacker. It’s certainly wise to be careful in dangerous circumstances, and to take needed precautions.

This issue of the Sentinel explores how God’s guidance provides a safe refuge in all kinds of situations. Lead author Colleen Douglass talks about how she prayed while taking a turbulent transpacific flight alongside the families of individuals whose lives had been lost when a similar flight went down in the Antarctic the week before. She writes, “None of us could find ourselves in any place where omnipresent God, Love, Life wasn’t already present. Acknowledging God as the sole cause and creator assured me that He was tenderly governing this aircraft and everyone in it” (p. 6). Elsewhere in our cover section, Jack Train shares how he and a friend were protected when their canoe capsized in icy water (p. 8). And Nils-Ivar Lindqvist, a sea pilot, tells of how he and his crew were kept safe in a dangerous storm (p. 10).

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