A young teenager in the late 1950's, the author, struggled with his parents' religion and refused to comply with their fundamentalist church, but his life was transformed through a series of unforeseen events and people he met at a state university. He tells how it all happened including a dangerous road race, the tragic deaths of two college friends, the heartbreaking end of one engagement and the love-at-first sight beginning of another. The story is traced through twelve "days" that brought him to a deeper and unshakable faith in the good news of a life and career he had once rejected but ultimately embraced with confidence.