THE SCENE: Sunny and beautiful although humid. Temps in 70’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-straddle-hops, 5 Burpees, 8 Windmills, 4 Burpees, 8 Cherry Pickers, 3 Burpees, Plank Lifts, 2 Burpees, 10 Little Baby to Big Baby Arm Circles, Forwards and Backwards, 1 Burpee
THA-THANG:
Mosey to beginning of Dragon Tail. We will do Route 66 up Dragon Tail starting with one and ending with 11 of the following exercises at each light:
- Jump Squats
- Big Boys
- John Travolta (four count or once with each hand)
Pickets Charge to Road to Admin Bldg. 20 Merkins and 40 Baby Crunches at top of steps.
Mosey to Roadway.
Rest and gander at the beautiful view of the river below.
Mosey to the alley way that goes to the northeast corner of the Admin Bldg. Go to the pile of bricks that is by a big tree. Each man pairs up with a partner to do Doras. While one partner is running to the end of the alley, doing ten decline merkins at curb, and running back, the other partner is working on the exercises. The exercises are done with a pair of bricks. Each set of partners will do 100 of each exercise. The following are the exercises:
- Overhead presses
- Curls
- Behind the neck lifts.
- 100 Rows with brick in each hand and hand at side
- 100 Squats with bricks above head
- 100 Wings Forward
- 100 Wings Up
- 100 Wings Down
Mosey to road in front of Admin Bldg. There will be cones placed on both sides of the road. Go to each cone and do the exercises listed.
- Cone 1: 20 Hello Dollies (four count). Lunge to Cone 2.
- Cone 2: 20 Bicycle Kicks (four count). Run to Cone 3.
- Cone 3: Bernie Sanders up right sidewalk to Flag Pole. Run back on other sidewalk. Run to Cone 4.
- Cone 4: 20 Dive Bombers. Hop to Cone 5 which will be across the street and a number of yards to the north.
- Cone 5: 40 Baby Crunches. Run to Cone 6.
- Cone 6: Run down stairs and up stairs three times, staying to right side. Run to Cone 7.
- Cone 7: 20 American Hammers. Bear Crawl to Cone 8.
- Cone 8: 20 Squats.
Mosey to AO
MARY:
Stretching exercises.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 men with one FNG. He is Nathan Chesney whom we dubbed “Swimmies.”
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We need to look at time differently when we think of God.
The Greek word “chronos” means time in a quantitative or chronological sense. Thus, we are speaking of time in the chronos sense when we ask “What time is it?” or say “I don’t have much time left to finish this project.” The Greek word “kairos” means time in the qualitative sense. It is not time that can be measured but time that is identified but what happens in it. We speak of “kairos” time when we say “the time is ripe” or ask “Did you have a good time?” Jesus spoke in kairos time when he said, in John 2:4 “My hour has not yet come.” As Frederick Buechner points out, it is in kairos time when the book of Deuteronomy says “there is a time weep and a time to laugh” or says “there is a time to reap and a time to sow.” (these words were paraphrased in the famous song “Turn Turn Turn” by the Byrds).
When we are caught up (and often miserable) in the pace of the demands of our world (we have phrases for this such as “living by the clock”) we often are not truly enjoying God. We can feel squeezed by time. As Henri Nouwen says, time becomes a means to an end rather than moments in which to consider and enjoy God. In chronos time we can end up believing that the real thing is always yet to come.
Chronos time is important. We certainly must meet demands and consider the amount of time in which to complete projects. But we must not forget kairos time. Thomas Merton said “the Bible is concerned with time’s fullness” the time when the texture and richness of what we are involved in come to be felt and seen. Time becomes more than what we have to get done. Time is the experience of all of what life has to give us.
We must work at seeing time in the sense of kairos, not just chronos. As Henri Nouwen puts it, time from the kairos standpoint “has to do with opportunity, with moments that seem ripe for their intended purpose.” Nouwen goes on to explain that if we can consider God’s purpose in our experience of time, we can then say, even in difficult episodes, that “something good is happening amid all this.”
So in your days to come, ask yourself “what is God intending for me at this time?” Whether your experience of a moment is good or bad, ask, “How might God be speaking to me at this moment. What does God want me to get from this? What is God wanting to teach me? Could God be working to help me grow from this difficult experience? Is God wanting me to share this moment with someone, to learn from another who may have experienced something similar? Is God wanting me to slow down, to communicate with Him, to pray to Him, to trust Him more, to depend on Him. Is God wanting to let me know that I am His and that I will be ok?
So, as you move forward, consider time in the sense of the kairos.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The eight workout challenge created by Abscess.
