I am excited to let you know that my new book, A Day’s Journey, will be released on October 24. I’m particularly grateful that my friend, Joni Eareckson Tada, wrote the Foreword. Here’s an excerpt from it in which she recounts our first meeting some years back:
It was my first encounter with Tim Keesee. Although a presenter at the conference with his own busy schedule, he had dropped everything to help a disabled woman in distress. That’s the way Tim is wired. He gladly participates in the hardships of others.
Just watch his DVD series, Dispatches from the Front. You’ll find Tim laboring alongside Thai Christians risking their lives to rescue women out of slavery. He’s bushwhacking his way through a jungle, helping to carry supplies to a church outpost. He’s crouching with his journal by a charcoal fire alongside a handful of Africans, scribbling down their faith stories by firelight. Back in his tent, he takes out his pen and fills more pages. He is tireless. Relentless. And utterly dedicated to his quest. Tim is out to capture unheard-of examples of Spirit-inspired courage.
There’s a reason for his quest.
Tim knows that with every hard effort bravely faced, with every gentle word spoken under affliction, and with every cross cheerfully shouldered, the Church is ratcheted up to a higher level. When sufferers exalt their Savior, they infuse iron into the faith of others. Their testimonies endow people with a clearer view of God. And all of it makes the body of Christ strong and purehearted. The Church—especially the Western Church—is in urgent need of such examples.
Tim Keesee is not slowing down his quest. Once again, he’s been hard at work cataloguing the stories of courageous Christians. But this time, his journal looks different. In A Day’s Journey, he not only records the faith stories of others . . . he includes his own. Tim’s recent battle against a fierce cancer has enlisted him among his brave examples. And we, his readers, are all the richer for it.
A Day’s Journey is now available for preorder from the publisher, Bethany House, with a great pre-order price! In addition, churches and ministries can get an extra discount off bulk orders if they order before it is released. (Call 616-957-3110 or go to the publisher’s website for more information about bulk orders.) A Day’s Journey is also available for preorder from Amazon, Christianbook.com, Barnes & Noble, and many other outlets.
My prayer for this book is that it will give us the endurance we need, remind of the joy we have, and show us the Gospel we love, the Cross we bear, and the hope we embrace until faith becomes sight.