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"I've heard preachers and small group leaders talk, and I've read books, about how God calls us and uses us if/when we say yes. My understanding is that if we don't say yes, God will call someone else. Maybe He gives us time to reconsider; maybe He moves on immediately. I'm guessing He does both depending on the person and the circumstance. After hearing a sermon in the spring of 2021 about Jesus using Peter's boat to speak to the people on the shore (Luke 5:1-15), I began to wonder if Jesus had asked anyone else about their boat before He approached Peter. Perhaps Peter was still the chosen one and would have followed Jesus after watching the miracle of the fish from the shore. Perhaps there was indeed someone who turned Jesus down and missed this life-changing experience and opportunity. As John points out (John 21:25), the Bible would have been huge if they had recorded everything that they witnessed while following Jesus. I do wonder if one of the reasons God didn't put every situation and every outcome and every detail in the Bible was so that the suppositions would inspire questions and conversations, especially ones with Him. This little book is my supposition about what might have happened to one of the fishermen along the shore that day. My hope is that readers will be transported, ever so briefly, to this scene so that, when God asks, they will be inspired to say, "Yes, Lord.""--