My name is Jenica Groot-Nibbelink. On March 16, 2014, after preaching a sermon* at Westmount Christian Reformed Church in Strathroy, Ontario, I was in a serious car accident and sustained several life-threatening injuries. I was rushed to Strathroy Hospital, intubated and then flown by air ambulance to London, Ontario’s Victoria Hospital’s Critical Care Trauma Centre. On April 23, I was transferred across the street to Parkwood Institute’s Complex Care Unit. By early June, I was moved up to Parkwood’s Acquired Brain Injury Inpatient Unit. After almost three months on this unit, I was discharged from Parkwood Institute on August 29, 2014. All in all, I spent six months in hospital. Since then, with the help of a fabulous rehab team (which includes my family), I have been working extremely hard at my recovery. I’ve had to re-learn quite a number of things such as swallowing, proper breathing, speaking, and walking. A variety of therapists continue to lead me in leg, arm, hand, voice, and cognitive exercises. It has been quite a journey and yet remarkably, I would say I live a wildly and beautifully blessed life. I invite you to follow this blog as I record thoughts along my recovery journey, even as I begin writing now, more than a year later. The blog title is: Involuntary Conversion. Involuntary because this is a path I did not choose and never expected my life to take. After my two-year campus ministry internship, I was planning to head to Calvin Theological Seminary and then, likely, a life in full-time ministry. Conversion because of the language link between rehabilitation, speech language pathology and conversion and, of course, because of its theological overtones. You will notice a semi-regular blog post from my father who is, himself, a local London pastor (and, often, my prime editor). You can listen to this sermon at: http://www.westmountcrc.ca/linked/S20140316.mp3.