THE SCENE: Temp about 36 degrees with snow.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 Side-Straddle Hops, HIgh knees run to end of parking lot and Bernie Sanders back, 62
Brady Corns, 10 Cherry Pickers, 10 Rockettes.
THA-THANG:
Mosey to Dragon Tail. We will do Route 66 up the Dragon Tail and come back down after each exercise. Here are the exercises:
- Squat Jumps
- Diamond Merkins
- Iron Mikes
Mosey to Pavilion. We will do elevens. The first set of elevens will be with Decline Merkins and Bench Dips. The second set of elevens with be with Bench Jumps and Picnic Table Pull Ups.
Mosey to CMU pile. Team up into pairs of two. Each team grabs CMU. We will do Doras with one man doing Bernie Sanders to other side of parking lot, doing shin lifts, and sprinting back. Meanwhile his partner starts on the list of exercises. Then partners switch. These are the Dora exercises:
- 100 Overhead Presses
- 100 Curls
- 100 Rows
Mosey back to AO.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Seven men, no FNGs.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Our technology, our science, it supposedly makes life easier. We get answers to our questions by clicking on Google or speaking to Alexa, and get feedback at the bat of an eye. We can gather more information in 10 minutes through Google now than I could find in a full year back in the days of paging through encyclopedias at my local library. But, are men more satisfied now then men who lived in the 1960s. . . 1860’s. . . 1760’s . . . or 2000 years ago? We search for answers, listen to the news, watch experts pontificating on television, hear folks calling in on radio talk shows . . . and are left unsatisfied. As Faulkner proclaimed, it is all “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
2000 years ago God sent His son to give to us what has always been the answer:
John 1: 1-5. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
In this season of Christmas, let us ponder on life’s true meaning. Let us take the time to stare into the darkness and come to see the light. Let us celebrate the answer to our longing that God gave and gives to us through a child born in a lowly manger. That child, that man, that God says to us:
Eat this Bread, drink this Cup. Come to Me and never be hungry. Eat this Bread, drink this Cup. Trust in Me and you will not thirst.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Pinto, for his wife, Tessa, and prayers that they will get the best of medical teams to work with Pinto. Prayers for others in Pinto’s family including Hooker and Mr. Jinxy. Prayer for friend of Doubtfire who recently lost his brother.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Polar Bear Plunge on New Years Day!