My beautiful friend Charisse, her son Nicholas, and baby girl Lacey.

When we were in high school, my friend Mike tells me a group of neighborhood friends went to Seaside for Mike’s Senior “skip” day. The water was cold and there was a rip current. Three of my friends got pulled out that day. Mike and Donnie swear they died that day. Mike tells me he heard the voice of God at the bottom of the ocean. He described it this way:

“We got caught in a rip current in 58 degree water for over an hour. Hypothermia set in and all my muscles locked up. I could not…