THE SCENE: Humid and 70, but we can see the stars.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
- Projectivators
- Moroccan Nightclubs
- Tempo squats – demo “in the basement”
- Tempo Merkins
- Mountain climbers
- Hairy Rocketts
- Lap with run warm-ups – skips, karaoke, slides
THA-THANG:
- Grab 2 blocks each and farmer carry down to the square
- 40 curls, murder bunny to NW corner
- 40 OHP, sprint back to get block
- 10 squats, 10 4c basement squats, rifle carry to NW corner
- 20 bent over rows – both arms together, farmer carry to SW corner
- 10 split irkins, 10 4c basement split irkins, block bear crawl to bell
- 10 step-up w/ press, 10 dips, 10 4c basement dips, farmer carry to parallel bars
- 20 curls, 20 inverse rows, farmer carry to pool wall
- 10 wall-ups, farmer carry one block to senior center pavillion
- 10 squats, 10 4c basement squats, hustle to parallel bars
- 20 inverse rows, 20 merkins, sprint to pool wall
- 10 wall-ups, rifle carry remaining block to senior center
- Heavy core set – 20 freddies, 20 LBCs, 20 flutters – all 4c
MARY:
Kind just did the thang
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Faith is the art of holding onto things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
-Clive Staples Lewis
From “No man is an island” by Thomas Merton, Ch.5 Item 2
The Christian must not only accept suffering: he must make it holy. Nothing so easily becomes unholy as suffering.
Merely accepted, suffering does nothing for our souls except, perhaps, to harden them. Endurance alone is no consecration. True asceticism is not a mere cult of fortitude. We can deny ourselves rigorously for the wrong reason and end up by pleasing ourselves mightily with our self-denial.
Suffering is consecrated to God by faith – not by faith in suffering, but by faith in God. To accept suffering stoically, to receive the burden of fatal, unavoidable, and incomprehensible necessity and to bear it strongly, is no consecration.
Some men believe in the power and the value of suffering. But their belief is an illusion. Suffering has no power and no value of its own.
It is valuable only as a test of faith. What if our faith fails in the test? Is it good to suffer, then? What if we enter into suffering with a strong faith in suffering, and then discover that suffering destroys us?
To believe in suffering is pride: but to suffer, believing in God, is humility. For pride may tell us that we are strong enough to suffer, that suffering is good for us because we are good. Humility tells us that suffering is an evil which we must always expect to find in our lives because of the evil that is in ourselves. But faith also knows that the mercy of God is given to those who seek Him in suffering, and that by His grace we can overcome evil with good. Suffering, then, becomes good by accident, by the good that it enables us to receive more abundantly from the mercy of God. It does not make us good by itself, but it enables us to make ourselves better than we are. Thus, what we consecrate to God in suffering is not our suffering but our selves.
Does this mean that seeking out suffering (like here) is inherently prideful?
Suffering is unavoidable
Suffering well requires practice
To practice suffering well, it is better to pick a good environment (Merton was ascetic)
MOLESKIN:
I had planned to make it back to the recruiting center, but it was clear by the time we got to the bell we wouldn’t make it. That first leg of murder bunnies was longer than I thought…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP in two days, 2nd F – concert at Bissel 6:30 pm Saturday, IRON PAX is coming up in September