Q: Shine
PAX: Shine, Coon Dog, Duff, Cheers, Mungo, Revere, Bare Market, Cowbell
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: 39°F beautiful crisp morning
STRIDELITE: Shine Coon Dog Duff Revere Cheers Bare Market
DISCLAIMER: yes.
OPENING PRAYER :pray:
WARMUP:
– mosey to upper island
– Took pax through a series of stretches and exercises
– Much flatulence. I mean… some of these pax should be medically examined.
THE THANG:
– YHC learned a valuable lesson today. If you’re not doing stargazers, pax will complain about anything and everything. And keep complaining. And then complain some more…
– All YHC asked pax to do was help him build a house.
– First we needed supplies from the block depot.
– Each pax grabbed 2.
– Next we needed to scout out where to build YHC’s house.
– I guess we need to take the supplies with us. Farmers carry seemed like the best way.
– Each time YHC thought we found a great spot for a house we needed to test it out.
– Various exercises were completed to determine if it was a good location.
– A lot of reps – pax choose their own exercise.
– Revere outsmarted YHC. The rule was the exercise of choice MUST use the block. Imagine my surprise to turn around and see Revere standing on his block doing 1/4 rep squats.
– YHC penalized the group with burpees.
– T claps to Cheers for supporting YHC’s instructions. Which were dead simple.
– Ultimately, we scouted for 1.5+ miles but YHC decided the best place to build his house was the block pile location. Best views, playground. Nearby. Loads of parking. Bathrooms. Etc.
MARY: no time!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– nativity ruck – 12/24
– Shank Christmas Party – 12/15 4pm
– Runvergence comping up 1st Friday of Dec at Old Mill Loop
COT:
– Marriages
– One another
– Harmon Family
– Mungo’s Bro-in-law
DEVO:
An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer – contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time, it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career. When the carpenter finished his work, and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter. “This is your house,” he said, “my gift to you.” What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.
So it is with us. We make our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than best. At crucial points, we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized, we would have done it differently. Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your home. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day will deserve to be lived graciously and with dignity.
Matthew 7:24-27
Build Your House on the Rock
[24] “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. [25] And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. [26] And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. [27] And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”