Posted by Wee Wee on behalf of Drysdale:
As this was my VQ. Anxious, YHC posted 30 minutes ahead of stride lite for set up as he didn’t want to disappoint the founders of the AO and planned aggressively building the Q around his strengths. Here’s how it went.
Conditions: 64. Clear. Stiff breeze.
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Prayer
COP:
SSH x 20 IC
TTT x 20 IC
Imperial Walkers x 20 IC
The Thang :
Two laps around the school equal to just over a mile run. Then straight into the Clydesdale Block Party Circuit. YHC provided a station for each PAX
Station 1 Farmers Carry with two blocks (time keeper, rotate after complete)
Station 2 Core ball balance
Station 3 Kettle bells with block
Station 4 Squats with telephone pole
Station 5 Roman deadlifts with block
Station 6 Alternating step ups with block
Station 7 Jumping squat presses with block
Station 8 Walking lunges with block
Station 9 Walking planks side to side and then bear crawl and crawl bear, RR
Station 10 Wall Sit
Station 11 Donkey kicks on the wall
Station 12 Hydraulics
Station 13 BB Sit ups
Once complete, YHC started one more mile. Notebook caught up and steered YHC off course resulting in only a quarter mile mosey.
Mosey to flag for Mary
LBCs x 50 OYO
Flutter Kicks x 20 IC
Burpees x 1 IC
COT
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Prayer Requests:
Net zero’s wife and their new born child
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Devo:
John 15 1-8
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit,
and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
Remain in me, as I remain in you.
Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own
unless it remains on the vine,
so neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit,
because without me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me
will be thrown out like a branch and wither;
people will gather them and throw them into a fire
and they will be burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
By this is my Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”
Jesus declares that he is the vine and we are the branches, adding that “anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither.”
It’s odd that we accept this sort of language very easily when it comes to our bodily health, while we balk at it when it comes to spiritual or supernatural health. Doctors and health specialists can say with a clarity and matter-of-factness that certain practices and behaviors are absolutely essential if one wants to maintain physical well-being. Unless you eat a balanced, nutritious, low-fat diet, you will get sick, fat, and unfit. If you smoke, drink to excess, and never exercise, your body will become unhealthy, and if these practices (or negligences) become exaggerated, you will die. It just isn’t that complicated.
Jesus is not engaging in charming poetic imagery. He is laying out the spiritual facts. The spirit is a living thing, and it derives its life from the vine. If therefore you are separated from the vine, you will die spiritually; you will stop living a supernatural life. And it’s just not that complicated.