Actor Dean Jones, often remembered for his roles in Disney movies such as “Herbie the Love Bug”, has just departed from the scene.

His story of conversion to Christianity from a Hollywood lifestyle he found to be spiritually empty has been recounted before.

Yet, after a drunk-driving accident and what the Chicago Sun-Times called “an entertainer’s tour” of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, Jones’s outlook changed in the early 1970s. He said he had a “divine visitation” that gave him “a peace I had never before had but which I had longed for.”

“I knew that if there didn’t come something that changed my life, that I would probably end up a pretty mess at some point or another,” he said in 1997. “And the night that I said ‘yes’ to the lord, it changed instantly. The peace of Christ rolled over me like an ocean wave and I’ve never been the same.”

Read more at The Washington Post.