Getting In The Wheelbarrow

One of my favorite stories of revealing authentic belief is the story of Charles Blondin, the French tightrope walker. On June 30, 1859, he did his most famous act when he became the first person to cross a tightrope stretched across the mighty Niagara Falls. The tightrope was more than a quarter mile long, suspended 160 feet above the foils, and he walked across several times, each time in a different way: once on stilts, once on a bike, once in the dark, and once blindfolded!

A large crowd gathered to watch, with each feat bringing louder applause. At a different performance, the…