I’m not sure how I got there or what year it was — my home life was chaos. My memory is a bit cloudy, but this part is clear—the woman who spoke that day said challenging words I will never forget. She said, “Always say ‘yes’ to God before He tells you what it is that He is asking of you.” She went on to explain, but my attention was already locked into the nudge of the Holy Spirit, and there in my journal, I wrote the simplest most powerful sentence I had ever written down: “Yes, Lord, send me!”