Weather: Warm and muggy

Warm-up:

SSH x10 IC

TTT x10 IC

Imperial Walker x10 IC

Don Quixote x10 IC

Pickle Pushers x10 IC

Thang:

Mosey short circle then grab bricks

Circle up

Hold Squat until 5 core principles of F3 were recited by PAX

Side Lat Raise x10 IC

Front Lat Raise x10 IC

Hold Squat until PAX recite 4 Quadrants of the Q Source

 

Mosey with bricks

Discussed the four leadership skills of Virtuous Leadership VAPE (Vision, Articulation, Persuasion, Exhortation)

Vision — V Ups x10 IC

Articulation — American Hammer x10 IC

Persuasion — Pickle Pounders x10 IC

Exhortation — Milton leads exercise of squats x10 IC

YHC asks which PAX have yet to Q a BC, both Fanny Pack and Radio raise hands

Fanny Pack leads PAX with Merkins x15 OC

Radio leads PAX with LBC x25 IC

Mosey with bricks

Go to picnic tables

Dips x20 OC

Step ups x10 each leg OYO

Leg Raises x10 IC

Mosey with bricks

PAX circle up and we discuss the 5 leadership virtues (5 Cs Candor, Commitment, Consistency, Contentment, Courage)

Candor — Telling the truth to a brother in order to help him accelerate Nature Boys x10 IC each leg

Commitment — Each man has committed to coming out early in the AM, Splinter shared a commitment of creating an emergency fund Pickle Pushers with leg raised x10 IC each leg

Consistency — Consistency is what will build habits. Space Cowboy shared how affirmations have helped him accelerate in his life and Flo shared the practice of consistently studying his Bible in a quiet place in the home Old Flame called shoulder taps x10 IC

Contentment — Having gratitude for what we have Moroccan Night Clubs x10 IC

Courage — Courage is not the absence of fear, it is action in spite of fear Monkey Humpers x10 IC

Stow bricks and Mosey back to flag

No time for Mary

Pledge

Namearama

Announcements: St. Paul’s Food Distro 3/12, Operation YOMP 3/26, Easter Convergence 4/16, Beast Week first week of May

COT: Fanny Pack’s neighbor recovering from COV, YHC’s family and all those in harm’s way

Moleskin: Commitment was demonstrated with 3 PAX that had attempted/completed several challenges over the weekend. Old Flame logged 75 miles at CGG 155, Good Times and YHC both completed the Goggins 4x4x48 challenge. Limited mumble chatter.

Devo: Having faith in the darkest of times. YHC shared the example of Hieromartyr Benjamin of Petrograd. Even in the face of execution by the Soviet authorities, he maintained his faith. YHC highlighted other examples such as Christians in Iraq during the occupation by Daesh, as well continued persecution by both their government and others, Jews during the Holocaust, French Huguenots in the late 1600s, all people of faith in the Soviet Union and China, continued persecution of various faiths in modern day Russia, people of Ukraine as they are under attack from Russia.

 

“It is difficult, hard to suffer, but according to the measure of my sufferings consolation abounds from God. It is difficult to cross this Rubicon, this frontier and give oneself over wholly to the will of God. But when this is done, then man abounds in consolation and does not feel even the greatest sufferings; filled as he is in the midst of sufferings by an inner peace, he draws others to sufferings so that they should imitate that condition in which the happy sufferer finds himself I talked about this before to others, but my sufferings had not reached their full measure. Now, it seems, I have to go through everything: prison, trial, public mockery and demands for my death as if the people applauded it, the ingratitude of men, their betrayal, inconstancy and similar things, anxiety and responsibility for the fate of others, and even for the Church herself.

“My sufferings have reached their height, but consolation has also increased. I am joyful and calm, as always. Christ is our life, our lightand our peace! With Him it is good at all times and in all places. I do not fear for the fate of the Church! We pastors should have more faith. We should abandon our self-reliance, our intelligence and learning and (human) strength, and give place to the grace of God.

“… I am joyful and peaceful, as always. Christ is our life, light and rest. With Him it is always good.”

 

https://www.orthodox.net/russiannm/benjamin-metropolitan-and-hieromartyr-of-petrograd-and-those-with-him.html