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| "SECOND MILES" by Carol Duerksen | |||||||||||||
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YOUTH GROUP LESSON 59
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| REFLECT: Discuss: • Tell about a time you went the second mile. Why did you do it? How did it feel? • How about a time when somebody went a second mile for you? How did that feel? Share this story: Imagine that you have trained for years to climb Mt. Everest, and you are now within 2 hours of the summit. You are about to reach the goal that very few make, and everything is coming together. The weather is good, sun shining—you are excited and psyched. Then, as you are climbing, you notice a spot of yellow on the ridgetop. A tent, perhaps? No. It’s a man. A man named Lincoln Hall. You heard his name yesterday on the radio. He had been left for dead the day before by his teammates. But he’s not dead—he’s alive. He lived through the very cold night in air that’s extremely short on oxygen, but if he’s going to have a chance to live, he will have to be taken down the mountain immediately. And now you get to choose. Will you give up your dream to risk taking him down, knowing he might die anyway? Transporting his dead weight will be dangerous for you and your teammates. Other people have left him to die. You get to choose too—whether or not to give up your own ambition and dreams to attempt a rescue. In all honesty, what would you do? Discuss, then relate the rest of this true story: The team decided to rescue Lincoln. They all survived the trip down Mount Everest. And Lincoln’s wife, when asked what she thought of the rescuers, said, “The world needs more people like that.” Continued... |
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