THE SCENE: Bone-chill cold. Hope you brought your layers!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: With deference.
WARM-O-RAMA:
- Parking Lot Lap to stop shivering.
- SSH (x15)
- Abe Vigoda (x6)
- Knox Cherry Pickers (x5)
- Tennessee Rocking Chairs (x5)
- Tempo Merks (x10)
- Tempo Squats (x10)
- LBAC (x10)
- RLBAC (x10)
- Seal Claps (x10)
- OH Claps (x10)
- Moroccan Night Clubs (x10)
- Chatty Cherry Pickers (x10)
- SSH (x10)
THA-THANG:
This was the return of Billy Madison. Billy goes back to back to school because we failed to graduate the first time many moons ago. Pax did 12 reps of each of the following exercise followed by a lap. After each lap, pax did first exercise and the next exercise, etc, etc. So first grade is exercise 1, 12 reps each. Second grade is exercise 1 and 2 (still 12 reps each). Third grade is 1, 2, and 3…etc., etc.,
- OH Claps (x12)
- SSH (x12)
- Big Boys (x12)
- Merkins (x12)
- Shoulder Taps (x12)
- Squats (x12)
- Toe Merkins (x12)
- Monkey Humpers (x12)
- Heels to Heaven (x12)
- Dry Docks (x12)
- Flutter Kicks (x12)
- Burpees (x12)
All pax graduated. Some got college credit …that probably wouldn’t transfer to a University so don’t get excited about it.
MARY:
No time. Sorry, Mary.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC is realizing, the older you get, the more responsibility and the higher stakes. Leaders MUST have perspective in tough times. Therefore, one must know where hope comes from and how to develop it.
The Apostle Paul gives us some wisdom in Romans 5:1-5. First, his statement on hope is sandwiched between two concrete assurances for hope; peace with God through Christ and our experience of love in our hearts through the Spirit of God. The meat in the middle of the sandwich help us to see how to develop hope. Check it…
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Abigail Adams once said in a letter to then president, John Quincy Adams… “It is not the still calm of life, or the repose (tranquility) of a pacific (peaceful) station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. …Great necessities call out great virtues.”
Difficulties are opportunities to prove faithfulness and give hope for the ones we lead.
Often when difficulties arise, we find ourselves asking the questions, “Why me? Why us? or why now?”
We find ourselves wishing for another time when things were easier. A favorite quote from Winston Churchill expresses a sense of destiny and call a leader should sense in the face of trouble. He says…
“It may well be that the most glorious chapters of our history are yet to be written. Indeed the very problems and dangers that encompass us and our country ought to make English men and women of this generation glad to be here at such a time. We ought to rejoice at the responsibilities with which destiny has honored us and be proud that we are the guardians of our country in an age when her life is at stake.”
MOLESKIN: Congratulations to Feeny for graduating at the same time as the Q this morning. Lots of hard work is quite obvious in your progress, brother!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Kingston Parade on Monday, November 28 at 7pm. F3 Knoxville will be working together to support 3 parades in the Knoxville area. Plan on contributing to trailer decoration when the time comes. It would be great for the Men of the Fort to attend other parades in Knox (including Oak Ridge) to support other AOs. Details to follow.