Inv3rted, congratulations. You made my day.
Your story is actually a lot like Saul of Tarsus'. He was a great persecutor of Christians in the years after Jesus' death and resurrection. One day, as he was traveling to Damascus to persecute Christians more, Jesus spoke to him from Heaven saying "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?". Saul is told to go to Damascus to be baptized, in the meantime he is blind. When is he baptized, he receives his sight and actually goes onto become pretty much the second most important person in the New Testament of the Bible, writing most of its books.
You don't mirror it exactly, but there are some definite similarities. Either way, welcome and congratulations.