The June Running of the Swampfox

Conditions: hot and muggy

COP: 25 SSH, 15 Don Quixote, 10 TTT, LBACs forward/backward OYO.

The Thang:

PAX grabbed a block and crossed the street to the trail and formed a circle and performed the first round of the swampfox together on Q:

20 burpees, 20 v-ups, and 20 squats with the block, run to the poles (approx .4 mi).

Rinse and repeat until Q calls time

Weewoo- 5+ rounds

One bar-3 rounds

Urkel-4+ rounds

Redo- 4+ rounds

Dabo-4+ rounds

Training wheels 5+ rounds

Gru- 4+ rounds

All in-4 rounds

Goober-4rounds

COT:

Pledge, announcements, prayer requests, prayer

Devo:

YHC talked about adversity and asked the pax about which part of the workout was more adverse. YHC read

Joshua 1:9

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

YHC talked about F3 qsource and suggested pax read. YHC also told a story from F3qsource that YHC read several times.

Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed. Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.

Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.

Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?” “Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she hastily replied.

“Look closer”, he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft.

He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.

Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.

“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.

He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.

“Which one are you?” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”

Moral:
In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is how you choose to react to it and what you make out of it. Life is all about leaning, adopting and converting all the struggles that we experience into something positive.