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Life Without A Net - Part 5 "Living In Prayer"

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Just a little over a month ago, Nic Wallenda (of the famous " Flying Wallendas " family) became the first man to walk a tightrope across the mouth of the Horsehoe Falls of Niagra Falls.  The wire stretched nearly 400 yards across the swirling falls, and Wallenda walked through wind and mist to other side.  Here's a bit of the back story that made headlines after he made it: The New York Times wrote this about the stunt, "[Wallenda walked ] in a mist so thick he was not visible on the Canadian side for more than ten minutes after he started.  The walk... had an Old Testament feel to it." Old Testament feel...  Why?  Because of the mist? Or because he prayed before during and after he walked four hundred yards on a two inch wire that was stretched across certain death. And it was crazy. And it was something a prophet might do. Maybe all of those things, but I bet it was mostly because of the prayer. Most of us find the time to pray when we are a...