Q: Mathlete
PAX: Biohack, Ocho, OBrother, Flying Dutchman, Munge, Patch Adams, Chicken Bone, Mathlete
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
T-jacks, Tempo squats, blast off squats, tempo merkins, newtons cradle, cherry pickers
THE THANG:
Mosey to pool wall – Wall ups and handstand
Mosey to playground – pull ups and bobby hurley
Mosey to amphitheater – bear crawl/crawl bear + step ups + bear crawl/crawl bear + flutter kicks/dollys
Repeat playground
Repeat poolwall
Mosey to parallel bars – dips/rows + big boys/basilisks
Mosey to bell – (irkins/Derkins, lap) x2, irkins/dips x2
MARY:
No time!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
RoCo convergence Dec 7
Smokies convergence early January
Forg3 registration open
COT:
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
God has a tendency towards reversals. He defeats armies by turning them against themselves, makes kings from shepherds, uses treachery to bring salvation, and demonstrates covenant faithfulness through the outsider. He brings forth children from the barren and the elderly.
Jesus was the reverse of the Messiah that Israel expected. He taught that the last shall be first and the first shall be last, the humble will be exalted, and that an enemy should be loved. Then he completed the great reversal when he defeated death by allowing himself to be taken by it, punished as a sinner even though he was without sin so that sinners might not bear punishment.
Knowing how broken the world is, it should come as no surprise that God, perfectly good, would often be turning it upside down. But how do we cope when He is so confusing? By leaning not on our own understanding. Once we stop telling God what we need Him to do and start asking Him what He needs us to do, we can leave behind the default mindset of compromise and lesser evil and open the way for His dramatic reversal.
