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The Warrior – July 2018

  • When: 20180719
  • QIC: Luigi
  • The PAX: Dorothy Mantooth, Cisco, Houdini


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: 77F, sun rising, 94% humidity and sprinklers active

FNGs: None

The Thang:

We did our monthly fitness test, The Warrior, where the PAX have 40 minutes to complete the following:

  • Run 1 mile, then
  • AMRAP (as many rounds as possible)
    • 5 pull-ups (on goalpost)
    • 10 merkins
    • 15 squats
    • Run 120 yards to opposite goalpost

Results (compare against June’s results):

  • Luigi: 20 (vs 19.95 last time)
  • Dorothy Mantooth:  18 (vs 12.259999 last time)
  • Cisco: 12 (vs 11.75 last time)
  • Houdini: 13 (vs 10 last time; had to leave after 30 minutes again)

Everyone stopped with maybe 30 seconds left on the clock rather than starting a new round.

Numberama: 4

Namerama: Dorothy Mantooth, Cisco, Houdini, Luigi

Pledge and COT

Announcements:

  • Reminder that Cisco is new AO Q for The Jones. Thanks for stepping up!
  • Prayers for Hot Spot’s mom and their family as she is dying.

Devo:

  • YHC shared a poem (lyrics to a song that the M has been playing recently) that stuck out to me as timely in this season of parenting a newborn. It is called,  “I Asked the Lord” and has a neat back-story. The lyrics are as follows:
  • 1. I asked the Lord that I might grow
    In faith and love and every grace
    Might more of His salvation know
    And seek more earnestly His face

    2. Twas He who taught me thus to pray
    And He I trust has answered prayer
    But it has been in such a way
    As almost drove me to despair

    3. I hoped that in some favored hour
    At once He’d answer my request
    And by His love’s constraining power
    Subdue my sins and give me rest

    4. Instead of this He made me feel
    The hidden evils of my heart
    And let the angry powers of Hell
    Assault my soul in every part

    5. Yea more with His own hand He seemed
    Intent to aggravate my woe
    Crossed all the fair designs I schemed,
    Cast out my feelings, laid me low

    6. Lord why is this, I trembling cried
    Wilt Thou pursue thy worm to death?
    “Tis in this way” The Lord replied
    “I answer prayer for grace and faith”

    7. “These inward trials I employ
    From self and pride to set thee free
    And break thy schemes of earthly joy
    That thou mayest seek thy all in me,
    That thou mayest seek thy all in me.”

  • For me, this was a healthy reminder that sometimes we don’t need God to help us carry out the plans we have made for ourselves. Sometimes we need God to humble us by frustrating our plans so that we won’t find our ultimate joy in them, but in him. As a good friend recently put it, “If your happiness is based on anything other than Jesus, that thing will eventually be taken away from you.”

Moleskin:

  • With everyone feeling sluggish today after Tuesday’s workout, YHC was expecting some low scores on the fitness test. I was blown away to see that every single person beat their score from last time, even though we ran the mile slower this time (fastest mile today was 8:13). The PAX did an excellent job pushing themselves to keep going despite not feeling like it. Kudos to everyone!