If you've never seen Lake Michigan, it's not your average lake.

Imagine standing at the ocean with water all the way to the horizon

and a shoreline stretching as far as you can see in either direction.

Lake Michigan can get as wild as the ocean, too.

Over the last decade, an average of a dozen people a year have drowned in the dangerous waves

and rip currents. A few years ago, a group of college students fought those waves for one intense

24-hour period. So I climbed on the board. I stood up, fell in, climbed back on the board, fell back in.

The paddle board flipped over.

And I remember just looking up, the waves are just, you couldn't see them at night, you

could only hear them.

So you just hear the next white cap starting to build to your right and you knew it was about

to hit you.

They were three to five

feet consistently the whole time and sometimes much higher than that. So there was a lot of falling off

the board, a lot of getting soaked, losing track of the boat. So we had to stay focused and keep

paddling as hard as we could. Why were they in the middle of the lake, in the middle of the night?

We're about to hear the story on the Revive Our Hearts podcast for June 4th, 2019,

with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Surrender, The Heart God Controls.

This month, we're exploring the topic of perseverance here on Revive Our Hearts. And to kick off this month-long focus, we're hearing from a family

that knows a lot about perseverance. Today, we'll hear from Karen Melby and her daughter, Jenny. When Nancy

recorded this interview, Jenny was only a few days removed from a major accomplishment.

If you missed yesterday's program, you'll want to go back to Revive Our Hearts.com and pull it up.

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