THE SCENE:
Black & gloomy – just as much gloom as getting up and going shopping on Black Friday should be! Actual weather: ~45°F and dry.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER (Administered):
I’m not a professional Pool Boy or anything else. Know your injuries especially after Thanksgiving Day being yesterday.
WARM-O-RAMA:
6 each x El Capitan OYO
6 x Werewolf OYO
16 x Tempo Squat IC
6 x Tempo Burpee IC (12-count Burpee aka nice and slow)
6 x Decline Pushup on Curb IC
6 x Tempo calf raises on the curb IC (also nice and slow)
THA-THANG:
To the COUPON pile: Black Snake – Take an Indian Run, but the last guy has to weave his way through the Pax to the front of the line.
TODAY’S SALE: Everything is $9.99!
| 9 hard reps | 99 “easy” reps | Mary until done |
| Werewolves | Calf raises – 33 left, 33 right, 33 both |
Boat – Canoe 3 sec rotate, 5 each 10 count break then repeat
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| Fairy Jack Burpees | 1/4 pushups | Flutter kick |
| Pistol Squats (each leg) | 1/4 squats | BBS |
| Wall pull-ups / hangs | Wall jumps |
Wall sits 15 sec on 5 sec off
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Next Up: Team Dora with Unlimited COUPONS!
Each team to do AMRAP individually and as a team AMRAP, pushing yourself and your team.
| Base Exercise | 1st Round | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | |
| 1st person | CMU in front | Curls | Rows | Kettle Bell Swing | Goblet Squats |
| 2nd person | Run in between with CMU | ||||
| 3rd person | CMU Overhead | Thrusters | OHP | Tricep Extensions | Piston |
Q decided close to time that upon completion of 2 full rounds of each exercise the teams would switch to Heavy Freddies (bicycles with a coupon). Might have switched too early because we had time for Mary.
Mosey back to the AO + two wagon wheels & 1 jailbreak. Will likely do more Black Snakes in the future instead after feedback I’ve received.
MARY:
We made it back too soon as we actually had time for Mary…
16 x 4-count American Hammers IC
16 x 4-count Mountain Climbers IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
JUCO Super Couponers (couldn’t upload or paste image for some reason but you can see the pic if you click it)
15 HIMs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Black Friday marks the “start” of the holiday (formerly known as Christmas here in America) shopping season. It shows where we put our values and what care about. As Christians, it is the start of Advent where we celebrate God becoming man. It was also on Black Friday in 2016 that my wife left me for the first time. I had been so long in sexual sin against her and she had faithfully prayed for and sought reconciliation. I had been caught sending explicit messages to a woman in October of 2016 but for weeks wouldn’t repent. It was the middle of a storm but my wife was so patient even though she didn’t know to what extent I’d sinned. She moved out but left a note saying exactly what I needed to do in order to regain her trust and reconcile with her. She even said I’d be angry at the end of the note and that’s why she’d written to me instead of telling me to my face. I was even angrier about that than she’d anticipated. After a weekend of self-indulgence and pity yet still in my pride, from that point on I did the things she asked for to save face and keep the “goodies” of marriage- but I NEVER ONCE truly repented until June 24th of this year as I said in my previous Q: Let the Word of Christ Dwell in JUCO richly.
Valuing things rightly, properly takes an attitude and focus not on yourself but on God and others. As Philippians 2:3-11 says:
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
3 questions we can take from this Scripture:
1. What are you valuing? Is it what the Bible says you should be valuing?
2. Are you considering others better than yourselves?
3. Are you asking (praying, begging, seeking) that God would give you the mind of Christ? If so, do it more and more. If not, confess and repent of not asking and ask God to help you ask and keep asking.
On Black Friday 2016 and until this year when my wife kicked me out of the house, I didn’t know what was truly important and did not humble myself. As I said before this was played out in my wife and I separating and now ending. Divorce papers were signed Nov 13, 2019. I valued everything but the one thing on this earth I’d now give anything to keep.
As we go through Advent, may you who read this 1) value the right things, 2) consider others better than yourselves, and 3) ask God to give you the mind of Christ so that you value what truly matters most – Jesus first, others second, and yourself last.
MOLESKIN:
Glad to have Abe from South Wake in North Carolina with us all week!
Pray for Cheatsheet & his daughter, Mandolin’s M’s mother with his M’s grandmother’s passing in her arms, Messi’s wife in the hospital, Junk’s wife’s post-chemo.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
I forgot to say this but next Convergence next Saturday December 9th at the Truck Stop followed by 3rd F @Two Rivers Church.
Don’t forget about donations for the Veterans Home too! Mayberry will do whatever workout you plan if you say you’ll donate so don’t be shy (the last sentence may or may not be 100% accurate but the first one is!).