THE SCENE: Partly cloudy skies, temp about 31 degrees.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Quick run around parking lot, 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Cherry Pickers, 10 Windmills, Little of This and That, Michael Phelps.
THA-THANG:
Mosey to parking lot across the street that is by the entrance way to the Northern Ball Fields. We will going around the parking lot four times, doing one per lap, the exercises listed in each corner. In moving around the parking lot we will go from one corner to the next as directed by the sign.
- Corner 1: 20 Hello Dollies, 20 Flutter Kicks, 20 Bicycle Kicks, 20 Box Cutters (four count each exercise). Sprint to Corner 2.
- Corner 2: 20 Squat Jumps, 20 Star Jumps, 20 Iron Mikes (both legs = 1), 20 Mountain Climbers (both legs = 1). Lunge to Corner 3.
- Corner 3: With CMUs – 25 Overhead Presses, 25 Curls, 25 Rows, 25 Squats. Bernie Sanders to Corner 4.
- Corner 4: 20 Merkins, 20 Bottle Openers (both hands = 1), 20 Carolina Dry Docks, 20 Shoulder Taps (both shoulders = 1). Hop to Corner 1.
Mosey to Flag Pole at Entrance Way to Northern Ball Fields. We will run to following areas and do the following exercises:
- Flag Pole: 20 American Hammers (4 count)
- Benches at playground: 20 Bench Jumps
- Dug out at ball field: 20 Seconds of Pull ups
- Pavilion: 20 picnic table pull ups.
- Rinse and repeat.
Mosey past batting cages to beginning of Cardiac. We will go up Cardiac doing the following exercises at each of the following areas:
- Curve 1: 10 Hand Release Merkins
- Curve 2: 20 Dive Bombers
- Curve 3: 20 Decline Merkins
- Benches: 20 Bench Dips
Mosey back to AO.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Twelve men, no FNGs.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
God created us in His image. He also created us for relationship with Him. If we are without God, there is a void within us. We as humans try to fill that void with other things besides God: riches, power, success, or finding that perfect person who can take care of our needs. But those things don’t work. Only God can fill the void.
I used a song by John Mellancamp in a former message I gave and I want to use it again. It describes the narrator’s attempt to fill the “void in his heart” with things that just don’t work. He claims, “I did everything like they said so that I could find happiness.” The problem is that he “is running from eternity” and trying to fill the void with worldly versus Godly things. Toward the end of the song, the narrator, frustrated and questioning why the void in his heart remains, exclaims “Hey, Lord, well you made me like I am.” In other words, if you made me like I am why does this void remain? The narrator is correct about the Lord making him like he is. The Lord made each of us with a “void in our heart”. And, He can heal the “restlessness” that the narrator suffers with. We will all be unsatisfied until we fill the void with God. We must look to God, fill our lives with what He gives us, to fill the void. Listen to God. What does God want for you? What is He telling you. What direction does He want you to go in with your life? Focus on Him, read about Him, take His message in – there you will find the true stuff that fills the void in your heart.
John Cougar Mellencamp Lyrics
“Void In My Heart”
There’s a void in my heart
I can’t seem to fill.
Been a parent, had three children
And a big house on the hill.
Hundred dollar in my pocket
And it didn’t buy a thing.
Now there’s a void in my heart
And a hole in my dreams.
Well I poured miles of concrete
And strung wire for telephones,
Dug ditches when I was a young boy
When I first left my parents’ home.
Sang my songs for millions of people,
Sang good and bad news,
Now there’s a void in my heart
And a fire at my fuse.
Well I did everything just like they said
So I could find happiness.
Went to school and got a college degree
And at my job I did my best.
As I sit here alone tonight
I see a billion just like me
With a void in their hearts and running from eternity.
There’s a void in my heart I can’t seem to fill.
I do charity work when I believe in the cause
But in my soul it bothers me still.
Hey, Lord, well you made me like I am.
Can You heal this restlessness?
Will there be a void in my heart
When they carry me out to rest?
God, my prayer to you is that each of us will see the voids in our heart and turn to you to fill them. If we seek you, we will find the strength, comfort and love that can fill the void.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for our brother, Pinto, who finished a recent bout of radiation treatment for cancer and will be also getting stem cell treatment along with chemotherapy.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We will be launching in Morristown on April 4. We have received enough donations for the pull up bars and will be putting them up in the future.