THE SCENE: 30F
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
- Run in circles switching to high knees, butt kicks, side to side, etc.
- Tie Fighters X 10 each side
- Cherry Pickers x 5
- Peter Parkers x 10
- Smurf Jack x 20
THA-THANG:
- Mosey to the track and field bleachers, but stopped 3 times for speed bump (3) burpees
- At the bleachers we split into 2 teams
- Round 1: One team runs to the top and back while the other team does tricep dips (we did 3 rounds of dips per team)
- Round 2 was the same except we switched to decline merkins X3 rounds
- Round 3 was the same except we switched to LBCs X3 rounds
- Mosey to the parking lot with the Jesus statue
- Alphabet abs; on our six, feet out to form a pencil, we drew ABCDEFG in the air, the ran to the far end of the parking lot to do HIJK, the ran back to Jesus. Went back and forth until we completed our ABCs and got our star sticker to put on the class board.
- The group of PAX decided by vote to finish off the morning at the CMU pile, sorry Mermaid.
- 20 curls for the girls, 20 lawnmower pulls each side, 17 man makers, 10 blockies, 75 ground press, 17 dead lifts.
- Mosey to the “AO Flag” – Pool Boy
MARY:
Our FNG “Venus” (please don’t show us your)…. took charge for the 2 minutes of Mary. Flutter kicks, heel taps and plank.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 including our FNG “Venus” (was his name)
* Baby Boomer, Venus, Betty, Pom-Pom, Slappy, Curveball, Pool Boy, Mermaid, Anchorman,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Corrie Ten Boom who wrote The Hiding Place experienced and witnessed hell on earth during World War II while Nazi Germany occupied her country the Netherlands.
She was arrested in February 1944 for her role in protecting hundreds of Jews.
The 2 closest people in her life were her father and sister. Both were incredible Christians that I can’t even comprehend their level of faith and love.
Her father died after 1 week in prison.
Her sister made it 10 months in absolutely terrible prison camp conditions. The nurses at the camp snuck Corrie in to see her sister one last time before she was sent to either a mass grave or cremated.
1 week after that Corrie Ten Boom was “accidentally” released and barely made it back to her country alive.
2 years later she went back to Germany to witness to war torn occupied Germany. She taught at a church about God’s forgiveness.
After it was over an officer who was at the Ravensbruck prison camp walked up to her to shake her hand and ask for her forgiveness. She knew exactly who he was. She had walked past him in the shame of her nakedness. There’s no telling how many terrible things he did at that camp.
This is what she said about this moment:
“Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of him. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him….”
(she then pauses) “Jesus, I cannot forgive him. “
“Give me YOUR forgiveness! ….
And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness that the world’s healing hinges, but on His. When He tells (or even commands) us to love our enemies, He gives the love “
How can I relate to this level of forgiveness? The day after I read this book I encountered a jerk out in public that really pissed me off. His words and actions burned me up inside for the next day. Not that I can compare my level of enemy with Corrie, but I thought about what she said. I couldn’t pull myself away from the anger I had. Duh…”I” is where I went wrong. I’m a sinful person who has wronged people and God many times. Of course I’m not capable of forgiving him on my own. It has to be from the power of God. I didn’t die on the cross for sins so what makes me think I can succeed in sucking up my pride to forgive? I even tried to rationalize for the guy. I had thoughts about what his life must be like to make him act like this. Again, not my job to make excuses for him or accuse him. God is the ultimate judge and he can breathe new life into anyone. That jerk hopefully will be touched by God. The only thing I can do is pray for God to empower me to forgive him and pray that God reaches out to heal him from brokenness.
So the big takeaway from me is this: The pressure is off of me! Heck yeah and praise God. I don’t have to get myself to a certain level of Christian status by checking off the forgiveness tab. I just have to fall on my knees and submit to God and let him be God.
MOLESKIN:
Pom Pom’s wife’s great uncle (Michael?) dealing with a cancer diagnosis. Venus’s sister (Gracie?) dealing with health issues.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
X-mas party this Saturday night at Butterknife’s house.