THE SCENE: Beautiful late afternoon, temps in upper 60’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Motivators starting with seven, 10 Twisties, 10 Windmills, 5 Burpees, 10 Tempo Squats, Little of This and That
THA-THANG:
Mosey to stop sign by northeastern corner of Admin Bldg. We will stop to do 10 Rocky Balboas and 10 American Hammers.
Mosey on perimeter trail toward Lyons Bend then head right on trail across roadway that goes to park entry gate. Continue to mosey to cones in the grassy field on the right. We will split into teams of two to do Doras. While one partner runs up the hill to the tree by the roadway and back, the other partner does exercises. Partners then switch. Here are the exercises the partners do as a team:
- 100 Big Boy Sit-Ups
- 100 Jump Squats
- 100 Merkins
- 100 Imperial Walkers (both legs = 1)
- 200 Baby Crunches
Next we will mosey to the bottom of Mount Everest. We will do 20 Flutter Kicks (4 ct) and 20 Bicycle Kicks (4 ct) in cadence. We will then run to the top of Everest. Those at the top will do imaginary skip ropes until the six arrives.
Mosey south to the cone that is across the street from the gravel parking lot. We will Sprint to cone then Walk to next cone, Sprint to cone, then Walk to next cone, and continue this process until we reach the cone by the stop sign at the southwestern corner of the Admin Bldg. Those reaching the stop sign first will do imaginary skip ropes until the six arrives. We will turn around and do the same thing going back but will Bernie and Walk. Those reaching the cone by the gravel parking lot first will do imaginary skip ropes until the six arrives.
Rinse and repeat.
Mosey to AO.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 men, no FNGs.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Comfortable In My Own Skin
Do you remember those Dove Men Body Wash commercials where famous coaches or athletes like Magic Johnson, John Elway, Tom Izzo and John Thompson III talked about being comfortable in their own skin? Those commercials had appeal because not only was Dove was supposed to make a man’s skin comfortable; they appealed to viewers because we want to be like the coach or athlete, having reached a certain level of self-satisfaction. We want to reach a point in our lives where we can sit back and say, “yes sir, I am comfortable in my own skin.”
Yet, if we are to grow as men, we in some ways need to be uncomfortable in our own skin. Each of us have certain sins, certain vices, that we need to get rid of, to cast off. God wants us to become ever more like Him. And, if we are to do that, we must shed old selves and become something new.
The following passage is from Voyage of the Dawn Treader in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicle of Narnia. In the passage, a boy named Eustace is telling his friend, Edmund, how he became a boy again after he had been transformed into a Dragon. The lion referred to in the passage is Aslan, who represents Jesus. Eustace has already told Edmund about how he has shed skin about three different times to get rid of his dragon skin. But he needed to shed even more skin to become human. Here is what Eustace says about the process:
Then the lion said- but I don’t know if it spoke – “You will have to let me undress you.” . . . “Well, he peeled the beastly stuff right off – just as I thought I’d done it myself the other three times, only they hadn’t hurt – and there it was lying on the grass: only ever so much thicker, and darker, and more knobbly-looking than the others had been. Then he caught hold of me – I didn’t like that much for I was very tender underneath now that I’d no skin on – and threw me into the water. It smarted like anything but only for a moment. After that it became perfectly delicious… After a bit the lion took me out and dressed me . . . in new clothes.
There’s a song about baptism by the Christian songwriter, Kyle Matthews. In it, a young male describes his own baptism. He says
“I’ve been through the water and I’ve come out clean
Got new clothes to cover me
And you don’t wear your old shoes on your brand new feet
When you’ve been through the water”
What I am trying to say is that God wants us to keep on changing, constantly grow, continually shed old skin. Am I comfortable in my own skin? Compared to the man I was 30 years ago, 20 years ago, even 10 years ago, I can say I am. I know I am closer to God than I used to be. But, I need to keep shedding that skin.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Swimmies whose good friend, Brandon, died one year ago. Prayers for Thunderstruck and his family after the death of his mother.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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