Paramedics carefully removed the body of a young woman from the wreckage of a two car collision on a stretch of Highway 101 in Olympic National Park. Her face was bruised and swollen—almost indistinguishable; her nose was gone, leaving only a dark hole. At a local hospital, doctors stitched her nose back onto her face and sewed shut her lacerated upper lip, but more serious injuries were internal: 2500 cc’s of blood was lodged in her abdomen; her spleen and pancreas ruptured; her liver was lacerated, and her kidneys suffered contusions. Her head had also suffered a zygoma complex fracture, and the lens in her left eye was ruptured. Later in the evening she was transferred by medical helicopter to a medical center in Seattle.

One after another, her friends came from far and near to visit her in intensive care. The pastor of her church in Los Angeles visited as well, but his first thought was “I t may not be long before we have a memorial service in the church.” Lydia Lin was t hat young woman. Here is her story o f how God transformed her life through this accident .