THE SCENE: You Are Already There
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Jog around the lot, 20 Side-Straddle Hops, 15 Shoulder Taps, 10 Rockettes, 5 Cherry Pickers, 5 Windmills, Michael Phelps, A Little of This and That
THA-THANG:
Men split up into teams of two. We will go to parking lot across the street. Each team gets two bricks. Mosey with bricks to the Caribbean parking lot.
Team runs together around parking lot stopping at every two islands. At each island each partner does five mini-man-makers with bricks. While one partner does the five mini-man-makers the other partner does five shoulder taps (both shoulders = 1).
Next, we will do Doras with the bricks. While one partner runs to the cone which is about 40 yards away, the other does the exercises with the bricks. Then partners switch. Each team does the following exercises:
- 100 Overhead Presses
- 100 Curls
- 100 Rows
- 100 Punches with each hand
- 100 Wings Up
- 100 Wings Out
- 100 Winds Down
Mosey back to the shaded parking lot to drop off the bricks.
Mosey up Mini-Cardiac and then go on perimeter trail to the stop sign at road that lead to Admin Bldg. We will do 20 American Hammers in cadence.
Mosey to bottom of Mt. Everest. We will do the following exercises before running to the top of the Space Needle, then back to the portion of the road in front of the Admin Bldg Parking Lot.
- 20 Hello Dollies
- 20 Flutter Kicks
- 40 Little Baby Crunches
Mosey from Admin Parking Lot to Front Porch of Admin Bldg. We will do 20 Calf Raises on steps then run counter-clockwise on loop that goes through Coliseum Area. On the benches in that area we will do 20 Bench Lifts. Then we will continue to run counter-clockwise around the loop and go back to porch. Rinse and Repeat.
Mosey to AO
MARY:
Bernie and Skip Around the Parking Lot. Ten Jump Squats.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 Men with one FNG whom we dubbed, “Britches.”
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
You Are Already There
“Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God’s love encompasses us completely. … He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.”
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Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
Life is a journey. In that journey, men tend to live it like a quest. The quest is the prize and we are always yearning for something more. And, we tend to tie our self-concept into it. That quest can be a good thing. We tend to grow along the way. But if that quest is not for God, we fall short. We get that worldly thing but will always yearn for something more. More money, a better job, a bigger home, a faster car. Further, if we tie our self-concepts into that quest, we are deceived. Are egos grow too big if we attain the worldly goal or we look at ourselves as failures if we don’t attain it.
Stop to think about life’s purpose. What are we living for? What is it that we are supposed to attain in this life. Brothers, what if we are already there? What if God loves us completely, just as we are. What if we don’t have to win the prize, set the high mark, achieve some kind of standard to have God love us to the very depth of our being? God loves us despite our flaws. God keeps no record of being wronged by us. God is patient, is kind, and never gives up in us, is always hopeful for us, enduring every one of our circumstances and human failures.
If we have that kind of love, we can be satisfied with what we have and who we are. I don’t need the fast car, the mansion on the hill, to eat at the best restaurants.
Having that kind of love, knowing that whatever I do, that I am always favored by God and I am never seen as a failure in his eyes – that gives me the confidence to go out and take risks. Knowing that should give us brothers the confidence to try, fail, and try again. For we may fail, but we are not failures. God is with us. He loves us to the end. We may never achieve our worldly quests. We may fall short of getting that job we want, buying the house we hope for, earning the type of money to give our wives and children the things we long to give them. But we have already attained our heavenly quest. God is there with us already. And if we trust in that, even if we die tomorrow, we have achieved our prize.
MOLESKIN:
Praise for Swimmies who has a daughter due to be born and house about to be closed on for the same day. Prayers for those who are ill or shut in, including Steam’s mother who recently contracted Covid. Fortunately, she is doing well. Prayers for all those who are traveling at Thanksgiving.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas Party at Judge Judy’s home on December 11. Thanksgiving workout at Asylum will be at 7 am this Thursday. Asylum and Asylum PM will combine for that workout.