I couldn’t put this book down! What an amazing story of trauma, frustration and perseverance, leading to eventual healing and deliverance. This story will encourage anyone who has struggled with chronic pain, trauma, unanswered prayer, hearing God’s voice and the timing of God’s plan. It’s a remarkable example of the supernatural power of forgiveness to heal and deliver. It was my privilege to play a brief cameo role in this divinely directed drama that concluded with such victory. Read it right now, your breakthrough is waiting for you!—Grant Mullen M.D., Author of Emotionally Free

Pat has been a treasured friend and mentor for over two decades. She is one of those rare saints from whom the presence of God consistently flows. This book is similarly a treasure and a portal. Jettisoning my own fear of cliché, I confess that, more than once, I found myself laughing (out loud) and wiping away welled-up tears. Both inspiring and practical, biographical yet timeless, her words and her story left me both spiritually satisfied yet thirsty for more. Like her, it's a treasure. So stop what you're doing, read this book, and. . .prepare for the portal.—Bill Campbell, Pastor/Missionary, France

Knowing Pat is to be drawn to living life more fully, more holy. Reading Pat’s story reveals the source of this power and makes me all the more want to pursue freedom in Christ.—Mat Carson, Director, Inspiro Arts Alliance, a Ministry of Operation Mobilization.

Collision, How I Found My Life by Accident, by my dear friend and colleague, Pat Butler, is a disarmingly honest testimony of healing and deliverance through the power of Jesus Christ, the word of His truth, and the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. It’s also an adventure of towering proportions, culminating in spiritual and physical freedom. Pat's compelling story offers monumental hope to anyone suffering from debilitating maladies that may have a spiritual source, highlighting the imperative of employing the biblical weapons of forgiveness, confession, and repentance.—Bill Drake, Director, Catalytic Ministries, OM International

I have known and worked closely in ministry with Pat for many years. She is a dear friend, mentor, and colleague. I‘ve seen God work powerfully in the lives of others and my own through Pat. Her wisdom, warmth, and love for people to experience real freedom in Christ are insatiable. Pat is the real deal—an ordinary hero living out God’s extraordinary call.—Dileep Ratnaike, Arts Catalyst, East Asia, Inspiro Arts Alliance

Unexpected, undeniable, and completely transformational. Patricia Butler’s Collision reveals the fullness of God’s mercy when it is least expected. This book left me longing for more—more healing, more purpose, and more of God.—Teresa Janzen, M.Ed., Author, Speaker, Teacher, and African Explorer

God works in unique ways for each of us. But, as Collision, How I Found My Life by Accident powerfully describes, essential truths can be learned as we engage in another’s narrative. Pat Butler’s journey began with trauma but ends in wholeness. She describes working at a local job but God thrusting her into international missions. Most importantly, her journey, which begins with fear, culminates in freedom. The apex of this journey applies to every reader—the need to forgive. I encourage you to read Pat’s story with an open heart and mind to the working of God in your life. This isn’t a book to be read and put on a shelf. It needs to be re-visited regularly, with a prayer for God to search your heart for resentments and bitterness that require forgiveness. May each of us know the healing and freedom that results from choosing to forgive.—Dr.Dianne B.Collard, Author of “I Choose to Forgive: An Intimate Journey with God” (expanded edition), Montage International, Director, ACT Intl, Europe Ministries Director, ArtsCharlotte, Director

We are in a world were people are suffering all kinds of ailments and bound by evil. They have questions about their predicaments in evil bondages and prolonged sickness. Those of faith are looking for a healing God, as He has promised healing to His children. Pat's testimony is valid. It sheds light on this God. It gives hope and strength to anyone looking for a healing God. I do not hesitate to recommend this book, Collision, How I Found My Life by Accident. It points people to faith, hope, perseverance, and trust.—Ruth Kunguma, Incarnate alumna, Artist, Scriptwriter, Actress, Founder, Rubella Films

Ready to take on a raw, transparent, and unexpected adventure geared with layers and layers of surprises, emotions, and clarity--a journey from unspeakable despair to unwavering hope? Pat’s story is the greatest gift and encouragement to any who are seeking strength/need strength to believe in timely deliverance, godly purposes, and hope in unhealed wounds.—Bonnie Chiang, Bonivoyage Art, https://www.bonivoyage.com/

Collision might just collide with your comfortable way of thinking. We want to believe that God heals, but we often leave the door open in our minds "just in case He doesn't." Pat's story challenges our traditional view of Jehovah Rapha, and in this testimony, you see not only that God can heal in any way He wishes, but that He is often also doing a deep spiritual work to release us from bondage. A quick read, yes, but one that will challenge you to think of suffering and healing in ways you may never have before.—Beth Beutler, Owner of H.O.P.E. Unlimited, Author of A Light for Your Path, Helping You Reflect on Each Chapter of the Bible

I highly encourage you to read this story that reveals how God did a deep work of healing in Pat Butler, one of His beloved children. Having developed a close bond with Pat over many years beginning with our ministry together in France, my wife and I along with our children believe that Pat is truly a trophy of God’s grace and power in life transformation. This book will be a benefit to all who read it.—Howard Moore, Former GEM French Field Leader and Ministry Team Leader in Lille, France

Just as I was settling in to a safer expression of faith, I started reading Pat’s testimony—one I had heard before—and the Spirit started stirring up my imagination once again concerning the possibilities of the great, miracle-working God. The read is quick, even breezy, but substantial— an excellent combination! It will benefit all with an inquisitive mind and desirous heart, but I suspect the book will resonate most with the intuitive, the poet, the artist souls among us, as it puts on display a methodology of knowing God that, though fully rooted in Scripture, is not worked out in rational categories. Pat’s story, rather, testifies to how God also works as an impressionist painter, revealing himself through the crafting of our ill-defined life experiences. With the Scriptures and the Holy Spirit as our guide, the image which is blurry and muddled at first becomes clear, beautiful, and revelational as we step back from too close a standpoint to view with spiritual eyes the work of art that is the life of every child of God (Ephesians 2:10).—Christopher Zito, Author, Doctrine and Experience: Caught in the Crossroads of Evangelical Spiritualities (Wipf & Stock, 2016)