F3 Knoxville

THE SCENE: Hot and steamy, temp in mid-nineties.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-straddle hops, 10 Burpees, 20 Prayer Pulses (four count), 8 Twisties (four count), 10 Windmills
THA-THANG:

Mosey to road in front of Admin Bldg.  There will be cones placed on both sides of the road.  Go to each cone and do the exercises listed.

• Cone 1:  20 Hello Dollies (four count).  Lunge to Cone 2.
• Cone 2:  20 Bicycle Kicks (four count).  Run to Cone 3.
• Cone 3:  Bernie Sanders up right sidewalk to Flag Pole.  Run back on other sidewalk.  Run to Cone 4.
• Cone 4:  20 Dive Bombers.  Hop to Cone 5 which will be across the street and a number of yards to the north.
• Cone 5:  40 Baby Crunches.  Run to Cone 6.
• Cone 6:  Run down stairs and up stairs three times, staying to right side.  Run to Cone 7.
• Cone 7:  20 American Hammers.  Bear Crawl to Cone 8.
• Cone 8:  20 Squats.  Rinse and Repeat back at Cone 1

Mosey to Playground.  Elevens with Bench Hops and Decline Merkins.

Mosey to Pavilion.  90 seconds of picnic table pull-ups, as many as can in that amount of time.

Mosey to shade of large evergreen tree by stop sign on northeast corner of admin bldg.  20 Boxcutters

Mosey back to AO

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 men.  Two Flying EH’s became our FNG’s.  They are now members:  Joey Miller or “Rebound” and Matthew Harshey or “Duckers”.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
One of my favorite spiritual books is a daily bible verse devotion book created by Tim Branch her in Knoxville.  It is simply called “The Blue Book” because it has a blue cover.  There is a topic devoted to each week of the year and a daily reading from the bible for each week.  There are also excerpts from various writers about the topic if the week.  Last week in my reading the topic was “time.”  I was struck by an excerpt from John Ortberg’s book The Life You’ve Always Wanted.  He talked about his own discussion with a mentor at a very busy time in his life when he was a young man.  He asked this mentor what he needed to do to be spiritually healthy.  The mentor, sensing where John Ortberg was spiritually, replied after a long pause:  “You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”  Ortberg jotted this down, in a hurry and wanting to cram as many pearls of wisdom into his notebook as he could in his limited amount of time.  He said, “OK, that is good one.  Now what else is there?”  The mentor replied, after a long pause, “There is nothing else.”

I feel that Americans need to hear this today.  We are such a fast paced moving society, rushing off to work each morning, fighting traffic to arrive on time, getting as much as we can done at the office, driving through “rush hour” traffic back home, throwing our dinners in the microwave, getting the kids to bed, finding a quick tv show to look at right before bed . . . we miss something.  I am guilty of this.  Often times, when at a store, if stopped by some old acquaintance to talk, I find myself thinking “Man, I gotta find a way to end this conversation so I can get on home.”

If we are truly to live a spiritual life, we must do battle with hurry.  If we do not, we miss out on so much.  We fail to truly enjoy what God has given us.  We fail to take time to listen to Him and miss out on the most important thing in our lives.  I need to listen to those same words that John Ortberg was given by such a wise sage:  “You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”