“I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, …

When I was a boy, I remember our family going to the beach for vacation each year. I loved swimming in the ocean, and trying to ride a raft, and just trying to body surf on the waves. We always went in August when the water was the warmest. I would get in the ocean and would not get out …