Flying on a Wing and a Prayer

By Josephine Hartmann

Some people share every minute of their life with family, friends, and acquaintances; others keep their past a secret for a variety of reasons. Jo Hartmann grew up in the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain, the air war over the United Kingdom, during which her family frequently saw Royal Air Force aircraft struggling to return to base after brutal battles with their adversaries from Nazi Germany. Some of those planes were, in the vernacular of the time, held aloft solely by "a wing and a prayer."

Life, like war, is a challenge. Nobody ever promised us clear skies, victory, and sunlit vistas. We're more often like a solitary, straggling plane facing a dark and stormy daybreak with only one functional wing remaining as we try to limp our way home from one of life's seemingly endless conflicts. Using all the resources we have remaining, we still need a lot of prayers to keep us aloft. But when we know that God is seated next to us in the cockpit, we can be assured that we'll make it safely to home base. Our landing may be without fanfare and none too graceful, with trailing wreckage and black smoke in our wake, but we WILL make it.

...even if we're flying on a wing and a prayer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 196089000X
• ISBN13: 9781960890009
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Second Mission Foundation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"