THE SCENE: Temps in 60’s, partly cloudy and humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 Squats, 20 Side-Straddle Hops, Plank stretches, 10 Cherry Pickers, 6 Baby Arm Circles Forward and 6 Backward, 5 Wide Arm Circles Forward and 5 Backward.
THA-THANG:
Mosey to Parking Lot by South Ball Fields. There will be four cones in the parking lot that form a large rectangle. Men should number off in fours so that there is a group at at each cone. We will run in clockwise fashion and do the exercise at each cone.
- Cone 1: 20 Star Jumps Lunge to Cone 2
- Cone 2: 20 Hello Dollies (four count) Bernie Sanders to Cone 3
- Cone 3: 25 Squats Hop to Cone 4
- Cone 4: 25 Big Boy Sit-ups Run to Cone 1
Rinse and repeat.
Mosey back to roadway then go north back toward northern ball fields. Stop in grassy area. 20 American Hammers. Next we will do 25 Squats.
Mosey to Parking Lot fairly close to ball fields that has nice restrooms. Go to southern end of parking lot where there will be sets of bricks. Each man finds partner. While one man does exercises with bricks the other journeys to various cones that are places along the parking lot. The running partner will bear crawl to Cone 1, then run to Cone 2. At Cone 2 he will do 10 Merkins. He then switches with partner. Six trips to Cone 1 and 2 will occur for each partner. Six different exercises will be performed with bricks. They are:
- 1. Wings up
- 2. Wings down
- 3. Wings forward
- 4. Side rows
- 5. Overhead presses
- 6. Curls
Mosey to Playground. We will do “All My Benches”, jumping up 10 times with 20 second rests in between. We will do this Five times.
Mosey to Pavilion. We will do “25’s” starting with 20 picnic table pull-ups and 5 bench lifts, going down by fives to 5 picnic table pull-ups and going up to 20 bench lifts. Next, 60 second squat with back to wall.
Mosey to AO.
MARY:
20 Box Cutters. 20 Bicycle Kicks. 15 Dive Bombers.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 men, no FNG’s.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Jim Branch in his “Daily Bible Readings Book” aka as “The Blue Book” has a week of bible verses dedicated to the concept of “Balance.” He comments that most of us, when we think of balance, think of balancing various aspects of our life, so that our work, family, health, friendships, and leisure all get certain and maybe comparable amounts of attention. He remarks that in the spiritual life, however, the word balance is defined differently. Balance, he states, means being centered. And, in the spiritual life, God is the center around which everything revolves. God is the hub of the wheel, the focal point. Thus, in being balanced, the question becomes, “Is God in the center of my life? Is God what my life revolves around?”
To be a HIM, I believe we need to be asking ourselves this question. And we can ask this question daily. If we are balanced spiritually, we awake in the morning and talk to God, asking Him what he wants for us in this day. We go to sleep reviewing our day with God, knowing He wants to hear us and that it is He whom we should direct our thoughts toward. We ask Him for direction when we are making important decisions or dealing with confusing questions in our life. We look to him for guidance when we are helping others who are difficult to help. We thank Him when we see blessings occurring in our lives. And, we even talk to Him when we are angry about life’s unfairness and blaming Him for awful things that have occurred. We look to Him for strength to not only get through harrowing, difficult times, but for strength and encouragement to be the type of men, the type of HIM’s that we want to be, that we know He wants us to be. We look to him when we are having difficulties with our marriages, with parenting, with our own parents, with are coworkers or friends. And we see him as our Creator, the Creator, the Infinite, the great Healer, the Giver of life, the one who can redeem us from our sins and mistakes, the one whom we can worship and be glad for.
So, the next time we feel “unbalanced” we can ask ourselves,”Am I placing God at the center of my life right now?” If we are feeling unbalanced, we will usually find that we are not placing God at the center. And, the way to achieve more balance will be to place God at the center, asking Him for guidance in obtaining that balance we need. For God is for us, not against us, knowing us and our individual gifts, there to help us be who He created us to be.
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