THE SCENE: Beautiful morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
- 20 SSH IC
- 12 Tempo Squats IC
- 10 Merkins IC
- 10 Cherry Pickers IC
- 12 Baby Arm Circles (Forward & Reverse) IC
THA-THANG:
Escalator style workout: Each light pole has an exercise with an assigned number of reps. Go to Light Pole 1, complete the exercise, and run back to the start line. Run back to Light Pole 1, do the exercise, run to Light Pole 2, do the exercise, and run back to the start line. Light Pole 1, then 2, then 3, and back to the start line. Rinse and repeat until you make it to the last light pole (total of 8 light poles). The exercises/reps were as follows:
- Light Pole 1 = 5 Hand-release Merkins
- Light Pole 2 = 10 Jump Squats
- Light Pole 3 = 15 Carolina Dry Docks
- Light Pole 4 = 20 Lungs (10 each leg)
- Light Pole 5 = 25 LBC’s
- Light Pole 6 = 30 Iron Mikes (15 each leg)
- Light Pole 7 = 35 Hello Dollies (single count)
- Light Pole 8 = 40 SSH (single count)
Followed that with a little Indian run action – traditional and then with lunges and then with bear crawls. Mosey over to the cloud for the following:
- 10 Burpee Box Jumps
- 10 Tricep Dips IC
- 10 Derkins
- 10 Tricep Dips IC
MARY:
- 20 Flutter Kicks IC
- Plank hold into Mountain Climbers
- 20 American Hammers IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
24 HIM’s got better today. Sharky & Potter came out as well (no tag)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
One of our pastors shared the following quote with us a couple Sundays back. The message is that we all worship something. If we’re not finding our identity in Christ, then we’re finding it somewhere else. Because of sin, we are all broken cisterns. If we find our worth in money, power, the approval of others, fame, glory, etc., we will never have enough. Those worldly idols were never meant to fill the void in our hearts caused by sin – no matter how much we have, we will always want more because our souls will never be satisfied with worldly possessions. A relationship, through faith, with our Father is the only sustainable source of life.
While David Foster Wallace (the man who coined this quote) wasn’t a Christian, his message regarding worldly idols is relevant to our daily struggles.
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual being to worship – be it Jesus Christ or Allah, Yahweh or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or some inviolable set of ethical principles – is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness. Worship power – you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need even more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart – you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.”
