When Rachel Joy Welcher's husband came home with a small head wound after a bike accident, she worried about a concussion. Hours later, when she found him passed out on the floor, those worries became fears.

Doctors discovered that a broken rib had sliced his spleen. As Welcher visited her husband in the hospital and cared for their children, she learned that a children's story she had written—about Psalm 121 and a little boy, Charlie, who struggles to sleep—would become a book.

"At the time, I couldn’t have known how much I would need this story myself," Welcher wrote at CT. "I couldn’t have predicted the night when I first returned home from the hospital, put our daughter to bed, and waited until 1 a.m. for the night nurse to call and tell me whether my husband was still alive."