THE SCENE: REAL gloom in the Fake Gloom. Misty, steamy, not too cold, not too warm.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Performed adequately.
WARM-O-RAMA:
-20 Side Straddle Hops (4-ct), in cadence
– 10 Cherry Pickers (4-ct), in cadence
- 10 Temp Merkins (4-ct IC)
– 10 Tempo Squats (4-ct), in Cadence
– 10 Moroccan Nightclub (4-Ct) in cadence
– 10 Overhead claps (4-Ct) in cadence
THA-THANG:
MOSEY to Caribbean
CANDY CANE ESCALATORS (addressed questions from Swimmies)
- Run to first cone. Do exercise then run to second cone, do exercise, run back, etc. Go to 8 Cones. Exercises are:
- Cone 1: 5 Burpees
- Cone 2: 10 Bobby Hurleys
- Cone 3: 15 Carolina Dry Docks
- Cone 4: 20 BBSs
- Cone 5: 25 LBCs
- Cone 6: 30 iron mikes (single count)
- Cone 7: 35 Hello dollies (single count)
- Cone 8 : 40 Imperial Walkers (single count).
MOSEY to bottom of Cardiac (addressed more questions from Swimmies), stopping at Intersection to do some maintenance exercises. Where’s Switchgrass??
Steam goes back to check, he had a ruck so will meet us later… but where? The plot thickens…
- CARDIAC WORKOUT PYRAMID (addressed more questions from Swimmies):
- Do the following exercises at the bottom then Bernie up to first turn and back. Do 5x reps the first time, then 10x, then 15x.
- Star Jumps
- Mountain Climbers (2-ct)
- Froggie Jumps
- Run back up the entire hill, doing 15 merkins at each turn
Where’s Switchgrass??
- Mosey to Parking Lot THERE’S Switchgrass!!!!
- PARTNER UP. Partner 1 does exercise, Partner 2 goes to far end of parking lot by method indicated, does 5 SSH, and returns the same way. Partners switch. The exercises and traveling method are as follows ((addressed more questions from Swimmies):
- CURLS / KARAOKE LEFT
- AROUND THE WORLDS / KARAOKE RIGHT
- What did we do here??? / SPRINT
MARY:
About 20 seconds of STS (Stretching with Steam) before time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Studs!!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The holiday season can be awfully exciting… but there can be a weariness that sets in too. Weariness of parties, shopping, commercials, food/clothing/toy drives, parades and then you can add to that non-holiday related stuff… election cycles, home repairs, what have you. And there’s also a more general sense of weariness, that despite all of our efforts to do good, sometimes it seems like we’re not making a difference.
Take a deep breath, the long view, and the celebrate the small wins. We don’t have to save the world. Small wins sometimes add up to God’s miracles. St. Augustine lived in N. African town of Hyppa. (Algeria) “Architect of the church”. Wrote incredible works and classics that have defined Christian faith for generations in a time when the Roman empire was collapsing around him. At the end of his life he was watching barbarians storming his town, knew it would burn to the ground. Went up to the battlements, and prayed. One of his prayers, one of his last, was this one: “Lord, my one hope, hear me that weariness may not lesson my will to seek you.” He passed away never giving up to despair.
Ted Loder was a retired Methodist minister who was known for his artistic political activism and passion for social justice. He was named at one time One of America’s Outstanding Creative Preachers
He wrote about an older woman in one of his congregations. She was nearly blind, bad arthritis, home bound. Lived on a small teacher’s pension that she mostly gave away to causes she believed in. She gave to Loder a poem. “You say the little efforts that I make will do no good. They will never prevail to tip the hovering scale where justice hangs in the balance. I never thought they would. But I am prejudiced beyond debate in favor of my right to choose which side shall feel the stubborn ounces of my weight.” Even on days when it doesn’t seem to matter, where will you put the stubborn ounces of your weight? Let us not be weary of doing good.
As Paul wrote in Galations 6:9-10 “And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary. So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith”. Don’t give in to weariness this holiday season. Learn to Rest, Not Quit.
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