Florence Nightingale's Diary Entry, February 7, 1837

On a winter morning in Embley Park, England, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in her family's parlor and heard something she could not explain. She later wrote in her diary that God had spoken to her, calling her to His service. She did not hear an audible voice. She did not see a vision. But something unmistakable pressed itself upon her heart with a clarity she could never deny.…