HIGH WIRE FOCUS
When I was seven years old, my grandfather, Karl Wallenda, put me on a wire two feet off the ground. He taught me all the elementary skills: how to hold my body so that I remained stiff and rigid; how to place my feet on the wire with my big toe on the wire and my heel to the inside; how to hold the pole with my elbows close to my body. But the most important thing that my grandfather taught me was that I needed to focus my attention on a point at the other end of the wire, a point that was unmoving and wouldn’t shift. that is how we maintain our balance on the wire. I need a point to concentrate on to keep me balanced. The ultimate focus of my life is Jesus Christ. The Bible says that we need to focus our eyes on a fixed point–we need to fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author…
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