YOUR HABITAT II

"The first time I walked on a stage, I knew that was what I was created to do..." - T.D Jakes 

We have established that, your area of calling is your habitat. No one should walk through life, without purpose, or an understanding of what you're called to do, or the HOW that you should go about. "Christians without goals," one writer said, "are a little like Alice in, Alice in Wonderland. In a conversation between her and the Cheshire Cat, Alice asked, ‘Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the cat. ‘I don't much care where,’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn't matter which way you go,’ said the cat."

Mark Twain wrote, "A myriad of men are born; they labour and sweat and struggle...they

IT'S NOT LOCKED!

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan 

Not Locked

If you have ever searched for something you already had, you'll understand how frustrating it can be. This can happen, when we expect the object of our search to be far. You're in hurry, and you begin the search for your car key, but can't find it, then you realize you'd been holding it all the time. Or, you're searching for your glasses and are unable to find it, until you realize you've had them on, all along.

On one of his European tours, the master magician and locksmith Harry Houdini found himself locked in by his own thinking. After he had been searched and manacled in a Scottish town jail, the old turnkey shut him in a cell and walked away. Houdini quickly freed himself from his shackles and then tackled the cell lock. But despite all his efforts, the lock wouldn't open.

CATASTROPHE II

"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity." - Michel de Montaigne

It is one thing to be obliviously unaware of something dangerous, and fall victim. It is also another to be ignorant of how dangerous something is, failed to get a warning then get hurt. The height of it all is, to be aware of how dangerous something is, receive adequate warning of impending danger, and yet refuse to listen and then get hurt. That is the height of folly!

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It was 10:15 p.m. when the front wall of the storm came ashore. Scientists clocked Camille's wind speed at more than 205 miles-per-hour, the strongest on record. Raindrops hit with the force of bullets, and waves off the Gulf Coast crested between twenty-two and twenty-eight feet high. News reports later showed that the worst damage came at the little settlement of motels, go-go bars,

CATASTROPHE

"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity." - Michel de Montaigne

In 1969, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, a group of people were preparing to have a "hurricane party" in the face of a storm named Camille. Were they ignorant of the dangers? Could they have been overconfident? Did they let their egos and pride influence their decision? We'll never know. What we do know is, the wind was howling outside the posh Richelieu Apartments when a Police Chief pulled up sometime after dark. Facing the Beach, the apartments were directly in the line of danger. A man with a drink in his hand came out to the second-floor balcony and waved. The Chief yelled, "You all need to clear out of here as quickly as you can. The storm's getting worse." But as others joined the man, and just laughed at Peralta's order to leave. "This is my land," one of them yelled back.

TIME UP!

"I believe it is peace in our time." - Neville Chamberlain 

Usually, everything that begins on Earth must have an end: I believe it's called a time span. For instance there's a time span between "impregnation" and delivery. There's a time span between life and death. There is also a time span between one event, and the next. Circumstances too - pleasant or unpleasant - have time spans.

At the end of the 19th century two French writers went to visit the well-known French scientist, Peirre Berthelot. Berthelot was a kind of scientific prophet. He forecast some of the weapons of mass destruction which would appear in the next century. He said to the writers, "We have only begun to list the alphabet of destruction." Silence fell over the meeting. Then the elder of the two writers said quietly, "I think before that time comes, God will come like a great