THE SCENE: Partly cloudy, mid to upper 80’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 Squats, 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Bottle Openers, 10 Windmills
THA-THANG:
Mosey to other side of Admin Bldg. We will do 25 Squats by steps up to Admin Bldg. Then we will run up steps to top. We will do 20 Merkins on porch. Run back down stairs. Bernie Sanders to street. Lunge across street and run down stairs to grassy area. 10 Burpees. Run back up stairs. Lunge back across street. Run back to stairs of admin bldg. Rinse and repeat. Those who finish first do baby crunches at top of stairs.

Mosey to northeast corner of admin bldg. 20 American Hammers in cadence.

Mosey to northern parking lot and trail leading north of that that gradually turns towards park entrance on Lyons Bend Road. We will do Route 66 with the following exercises. Whoever finishes first sweeps others back to start.

Big Boy Situps
Star Jumps
Dive Bombers

We will do 14’s to where trail hits roadway coming from Lyons Bend gateway entrance. We will bear crawl to first light, sprint the next four lights, bear crawl one more light, sprint another four, etc. until roadway.

Mosey to Bottom of Roadshow Run. Do 25 Squats in cadence. Run to top of Roadshow Run. Those who get to street first do plank until everyone arrives.

Mosey to AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Eleven men, one who was a Flying EH, a great guy named Sam Harward whom we have given the F3 name of Samsung. Samsung is a competitor of the group he works for.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM

John Donne’s poem, A Hymn to God the Father is a powerful and beautiful reminder of how much God loves us, despite are continuing sin. In the first stanza, Donne asks God whether he will love him despite the fact that he continues to commit the same sins again and again, despite the fact that he himself deplores those very sins. How could a just God continue to love him despite the fact that, given so many chances, he doesn’t ever get it right? And yet, God still loves him.

In the second stanza Donne admits to being even worse. He asks if God will forgive and love him despite the fact that he wins others to the very sins he has committed. He asks whether God will love him despite the fact that he escapes from some sins, only to commit them years later – and may even wallow in those sins. How could God forgive him. And yet, God does.

In the final stanza, Donne, a great man of faith, admits the sin of his own lack of faith. He fears that when he dies that he shall perish alone, devoid of anything – that death is only the end. So he asks for God’s promise that at his death, God’s son shall shine as he shines now. And, realizing Jesus’ love for us, he sees God, he sees his love, and in that he fears no more.

A Hymn to God the Father

By John Donne

Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,

Which was my sin, though it were done before?

Wilt thou forgive that sin, through which I run,

And do run still, though still I do deplore?

When thou hast done, thou hast not done,

For I have more.

Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won

Others to sin, and made my sin their door?

Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun

A year or two, but wallow’d in, a score?

When thou hast done, thou hast not done,

For I have more.

I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun

My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;

But swear by thyself, that at my death thy Son

Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;

And, having done that, thou hast done;

I fear no more.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Kickball tournament this Saturday!