Due Season: A Man Before His Time

Due Season: A Man Before His TimeWalter McDonald was not a preacher. He never stood behind a pulpit or carried a Bible to work. But from the time he was eight years old — sitting on his grandmother's porch in St. Louis, watching ants move in a line so perfect it looked drawn by a steady hand — he understood that someone had made this world on purpose. And he spent his entire life trying to find out who.He was the kind of man his neighborhood knew without being able to say when it learned him. Quiet. Deep. Slow to speak and swift to listen. The kind of man you called when things got hard — not because he had answers, but because he had presence. The kind of man his grandmother called an old soul. The kind of man people said was before his time.She was right. In more ways than one.On an ordinary Tuesday night in October, Walter McDonald was eleven minutes from home when a police officer pulled him over. He did everything right. He said sir. He announced every movement before he made it. He had his hands on the steering wheel.It did not matter.Due Season is the story of what happened next — not in the streets, not in the courtrooms, but in the only place where the full record has ever been kept. In the presence of a God who watched every moment of Walter's life, who heard the shot before it was fired, and who had been waiting for this conversation since before Walter was born.What unfolds is a dialogue unlike any in modern fiction — searching, prophetic, and devastating in its precision. God walks Walter through the record: from Abel's blood crying from the ground, to the birthright of Jacob and the contempt of Esau, to the crimes of Edom across generations, to the ships and the auctions and the arrangement that replaced them — all the way to a dark street in St. Louis and one loose description called over a radio.And then He speaks His verdict.For every reader who has watched injustice go unanswered and wondered if anyone is keeping count — this book is the answer.Be not weary in well doing. For in due season, we shall reap. Read more