AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Crash Dummy, Mr Jinxy, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Franzia, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Drum Major, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Brick
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: 20 Plank Jacks, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 Windmills, 10 Inchworms, Curly Stomps, 10 Rockettes, 7 Twistees, 6 Pterodactyls Forward, 6 Pterodactyls Backward.
THE THANG: Mosey to Caribbean Parking Lot. We will run Candy Canes in the parking lot, counterclockwise, starting from the west end and ending at the fourth island on the other side. We will stop every two islands to do the listed exercises. Those finishing the exercises at the end of the Candy Cane sweep everyone back to the start. We will do one set of the exercises below for each Candy Cane run:
Ten Shoulder Taps, Both Shoulders = 1
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Ten Iron Mikes, Both Legs = 1
Mosey to the Bros Bowl. We will go clockwise around the bowl, stopping halfway up to do 20 Carolina Dry Docks, stopping up top to do 20 Bench Dips, and stopping halfway down to do 20 Carolina Dry Docks. Those reaching the bottom first do Baby Crunches until the six arrives.
Rinse and repeat but with 20 Merkins halfway up and halfway back.
Mosey to the Outdoor Chapel. We will split into teams of two for Doras. While one man goes around the chapel on the sidewalk the other works on exercises. Here are the exercises for each team to complete:
150 Step ups at stage area
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150 Hello Dollies (two count)
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150 Flutter Kicks (two count)
Mosey back to the Bros Bowl. We will run counterclockwise around the thin inner circle (generally used for drainage) of the Bros Bowl.
Mosey to the Caribbean Parking Lot. We will stop to do 10 Tempo Squats.
Mosey to the parking lot with the nice restroom across the street from the Caribbean Parking Lot. We will go to trail that passes by the restrooms. We will do a Route 66 up the trail toward Haslam Rock stopping at each light to do an increasing number of Bobby Hurleys.
Mosey on up the trail to the parking lot. We will stop to do 20 American Hammers.
Mosey to the roadway and back to the AO.
MARY: Stretches.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Coffeeteria at Chick-Fil-A!
COT:
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The Simple Act of Giving
The following true story was reported on NBC’s Today Show. In 2018, , Joey Romano, a college student at the University of Texas at Austin was skateboarding near the campus when he had to swerve to avoid a car. He slammed into a ditch and broke his wrist. He didn’t have good medical insurance and was worried about the cost of an ambulance. So, he called Uber.
The damage to Joey’s wrist was bad. When the Uber driver, Beni Lukumu arrived, Romano was still lying on the ground. Lukumu gently helped Romano to the passenger seat and reclined the seat back to minimize pain and discomfort. Romano had Lukumu take him to an Urgent Care Clinic. However, the break was too serious and doctors directed Romano to go to a hospital emergency room.
Lukumu insisted on driving Romano to the hospital at no charge. He also found out that Romano had no family nearby to come to help him. Lukumu had immigrated to the United States from Congo at the age of 25 and knew what it was like to be far from loved ones. Although he had been planning on driving for Uber for a full day, he decided to stay with Joey Romano, helping to sign him in and get him to a room where the doctors operated. Romano recalled being on a morphine drip and looking over at Beni Lukumu, his warm presence making him feel more like a long-time friend than a stranger.
Joey’s stay at the hospital lasted from 2 pm to 8pm. By the time he was discharging, his grandmother, who lived in Houston, Texas, arrived. She offered Lukumu payment not only for the ride to the hospital but for all the time he has spent there with her grandson. Beni politely refused but did agree to join them for dinner. And a friendship was started that has lasted over seven years.
What Beni Lukumu didn’t know at the time was that Joey was at a low point in his life when the skateboarding accident occurred. He was still grieving the loss of an older brother from leukemia. He had shut himself off from others and was having trouble just getting by. That day with Beni was a turning point for Joey. Romano said, “That one act of kindness helped me see the good in the world again. Having him spend his entire day with me – a complete stranger, for no reason than the goodness in his heart, helped me to put things into perspective. Beni absolutely changed my life.”
Beni Lukumu, who is an accomplished gospel music singer, now works in the insurance industry in Austin, Texas. Joey Romano is now a renewable energy developer. The friends check in on each other a couple of times a year.
Beni Lukumu’s comments to the interviewer were these: “The world is so divided now. What we need is love and kindness.
Prayer Requests
Prayers for Pinto, our brother who has Multiple Myeloma Cancer and has recently received T-Cell treatment. He just got out of the hospital yesterday which was his birthday. Prayers for Will, the 5-year-old who is a student of Drum Major’s wife and is getting treatment for cancer. Prayers of praise for F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), who like Beni Lukumu in today’s message, performed an act of kindness last week for a fellow named John whose car was at Lakeshore Park but would not start. Pluto used his Triple A to get a tow truck to take John’s car to Firestone. He helped John pay for the repair and when Firestone couldn’t fix the car that Saturday, even put John (who lives in the Crossville area) an Extended Stay until his car could be repaired.
