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There is only a photograph...

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Proper 22 | Ordinary Time 27 - C
2 Timothy 1:1-14
Ron Love
There is only a photograph of one person standing atop Mount Everest, and that is of Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary as the first climbers to conquer the summit. When asked why there was no picture of himself, Hillary replied that Norgay had never ever taken a photograph before "and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how."

Application: God gave us the spirit of courage, and two courageous men were the first to ascend Everest.
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