THE SCENE: A cozy 34 with minimal cloud cover and a 6mph northeasterly wind.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Check and check!
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH (x10)
Willie Mays Hayes (x10)
Tempo Squats (x10)
Cherry Pickers (of the Knoxville variety) (x10)
FLBAC (x10)
RLBAC (x10)
Cherry Pickers (of the Chattanooga variety – if you don’t feel it in your fingers, it’s a modification!) (x10)
Grady Corn (x10)
SSH (x10)
Mosey to the track.
THA-THANG:
Pax partner up for a Two-Man Dora with a lap around the track in between each round! Partners complete reps collectively. One pax traveled from sideline to cones at the center of the football field and back, the other works the reps, then flapjack. Once total reps complete, both HIM’s take a lap.
Round 1 – 150 Merkins | Travel: Imperial Walkers | Lap
Round 2 – 150 BBS | Travel: Lunges | Lap
Round 3 – 200 Squats | Travel: Bear Crawl | Lap
Round 4 – 150 American Hammers | Bernies | Lap
Round 5 – 150 Carolina Dry Docks | Grapevine | Lap
Mosey to the flag for Mary.
MARY: Dealer’s Choice
Bobbitt – LBCs (x15)
Borg – Freddie Mercury (x20)
Tuba’s back row thingies that cause YHC to regurgitate his morning coffee (x20)
Mathlete – Hello Dollies (x25)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC discussed the difficulty of having to talk about death to someone who was dying. Shared about experiencing doubt, fear, and hesitation. Often we are asked to do hard things that create this kind of reaction in our lives.
YHC also discussed a podcast in which a pilot in training had lost an engine and the plane started going out of control. The trainer simply came over the coms and said “Kick its @$$” (pardon YHC’s crudity) to which the pilot responded by mustering up a ferocity to quell the fear and take control of the plane.
F3 has been the primary place that YHC has learned to recognize the voices of hesitation and doubt, primarily when the alarm goes off to head to the gloom. It has also been the place to recognize the voices of other pax that speak truth and encouragement in the face of doubt.
Romans 5:3-5 says, “And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope…”
We know how this works
We know how this works. The more we do difficult things, the more we experience endurance. The more endurance, the more character. The more character, the more hope. However, Paul continues…
“…and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.”
We not only need learn to listen to the lies of doubt, worry, and hesitation, we need HIM’s around us to help us hear otherwise and “Kick its Boutté”, but we also must learn to listen to the Spirit within us. This is an assurance of God’s work within us which fortifies and strengthens our hope.
MOLESKIN:
You know things are getting severe when Snaggletooth lets out the “Cha-hoo!” Borg noted that one should refer to the King James Version of Luke 14:5 if bothered by YHC’s crude language. It’s been a while since the Project has done a “do do do do do Dora!” YHC was happy to provide her welcome return. “We did it!” Fun was had by all.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Operation Christmas Child boxes were distributed to fill and return by Thursday. The Oak Ridge Christmas Parade will be Saturday, Dec 11 from 6-8pm. All F3 men and families are welcome to participate and hand out candy and F3 flyers.