THE SCENE: Drippy, slushy, 35ish with a brook babbling by in the background
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
- High knees
- Projectivators
- Tempo squats
- Little baby arm circles
- Tempo merkins
- Dive bombers
- Fence steppers
- 5 burpees
- Cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
3 cycles of AMRAP, 45 s on, 15 s recovery
- Cycle 1
- Curls
- Overhead press
- Heavy squats
- CMU Swings
- Row right
- Row left
- Mosey to pool wall and do 7 wall-ups
- Cycle 2
- Derkins
- Block Jump overs
- Tricep Extensions
- Heavy freddy’s
- Thrusters
- Walking CMU Merkins
- Mosey to playground for 7 pull ups
- Cycle 3
- Heavy Lunges
- Heel taps
- Good mornings
- Heavy flutter kicks
- Airplanes
- Blockees
- Return to parking lot and bear crawl the CMUs back from whence they came
MARY:
60 s tree hugger with a probably-longer-than-necessary joke
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 6:16-18
16 “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.17But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,18so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
fasting, Schmemann argues, “rather than weakening us makes us light, concentrated, sober, joyful, pure.
true “Christian asceticism is a fight, not against but for the body.”
In Taft’s words, penance is “not a turning in on self, not a concentration on self-discipline as some sort of spiritual athletics, but an openness to new life, and through it openness to others, the end to which it is all supposed to lead.”
Schmemann counsels a fast to “control our speech”19 so that we can recover a measure of silence in our spiritual life without which we cannot hear the voice of the Lord.
fasting, like all forms of discipline, “is not a pitting of the spirit against the flesh, but rather body and soul united together against sin, body and soul converted together to the Lord.
The body is valuable and a precious gift of the Creator—who Himself of course took on human flesh—but its value is only recognizable paradoxically when it is not pampered but denied, as in fasting: “fasting in Christianity is only truly itself when it realizes the sacredness of the body.
fasting as a physical effort is totally meaningless without its spiritual counterpart: ‘by fasting and prayer.
O Lord and Master of my life!
Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-hearted ness, lust of power and idle talk
But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant.
Yes, O Lord and King!
Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my brother;
For Thou are blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.
MOLESKIN:
I have a couple of goats, and I realized yesterday that the gate to their pen was completely detached at the hinge. If they had bumped the gate, it would have fallen and they could have escaped. But they didn’t. In the long run, fences don’t work because of their strength or durability. They work because we accept them. If you ever want to get out, just keep testing the fence and one day it will fall.
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