THE SCENE: Clear, calm 21°
WARM-O-RAMA:
Kept it quick to get moving. Maracan Night club, Side Straddle Hops Imperial Squat Walkers
THA-THANG:
8 HIMs + 5 Rushers + 1 surprise Rucker
1st Cold thing: the Guardrail (obligatory with the name and all) 30Dips, Plank with feet on Guardrail
- Black snake the long way to the big parking lot
- Hard thing 1: 20 Merkins/20 BBS then 15/10/5. Just like we did on Monday. Did you feel stronger?
- Bernie to the new parking lot for Guantanamo Line (Feet up while one guy runs the line and tries to throw feet to the ground)
- Hard thing 2: Little Drummer Boy Lead by Median (Side straddle hops, high knees & Burpee with each “rum pum pum pum” 22 if you are counting.
- Hard thing 3: Mosey to CMU pile & partner up for 2 cycles of each team collectively performing
- 20 Pull Ups
- 40 Tri curl with CMU
- 60 Overhead Press
- 80 Squats
- 100 Curls
- Long way home via courtyard with a some bear crawls down some stairs b/c why not
MARY:
Dealers choice of Freddie Mercury, Box Cutters, Pickle Pounders, Imperial Walkers, Heels to Heaven, LBC
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Last week was Thanksgiving and maybe you went around the table and shared something you were thankful for but this morning I’m going to challenge you each to think of something hard in 2020 that you are thankful for. Maybe it was a hard workout or maybe it’s something bigger than that.
Thankfulness is not sticking our heads in the sand and pretending like 2020 has been great in every regard. Biblical thinking on suffering is not taking that approach of being thankful in all circumstances (1 Thes 5:18) by simply thinking of the eternal hope that we hold onto and ignoring the pain of loss.
It is not mutually exclusive to be thankful and affirm that COVID has caused a lot of pain this year. There is the loss of life and health. There is the loss of normalcy. There is the loss of hugs at a Thanksgiving gathering or travel to see loved ones. The economic loss is real too.
My suffering was good for me, for it taught me to pay attention to your decrees. Psalms 119:71 NLT
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C.S. Lewis
If we really graduate from God’s school of Thankfulness, we are thankful not just in the trial, but for the trail. And not just because the pain brings us closer to God, though that would be worth it, but because God knows what He is doing and the pain, the loss, the trial are part of His will because he loves us.
Consider Christ who suffered and was not at all outside the will of God. It is in these sufferings we can be closest to God.
Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world. So if you are suffering in a manner that pleases God, keep on doing what is right, and trust your lives to the God who created you, for he will never fail you.
1 Peter 4:13, 19 NLT
“The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust – not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.”
– Brennan Manning
Powerful time of sharing challenges from the year that we are thankful for.
MOLESKIN:
Thank you guys for sharing your hearts. It was great to look in your eyes this morning as you shared some really hard things that this year brought. God has carried through us all a lot. God has given us hope and to see how we have drawn closer to him. It’s an honor to see God at work in each of you and speak truth into our hurts: God is bigger than that challenge, God wants you to draw near to him in the hurt.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Based upon the amount of steam rising off all your shoulders and heads you worked really hard this morning, but @spotter takes the prize for looking most like he was on fire.
