Hoist came out today and kept YHC accountable to the workout. He was having some knee pain so we modified today. He walked the stairs while YHC did some speed work by high stepping each stair. Hoist put in a mile while I was able to get about 2.25 in total. Strong work for Hoist to walk a mile on stairs with knee pain, that’s accountability. See below on what we did.
Conditions: partly cloudy, mid 70’s
Disclaimer/prayer
Mosey over to the stairs:
• One round of the Tom Cat
• Pick a lane and go up and down hitting each stair for one cycle. Rinse and repeat for three cycles.
• Rinse and repeat the cycles adding one cycle to each round until you reach 10 at the top of the ladder.
• Go back down the ladder by taking one cycle away from each round until you reach 3.
Finish with another round of the Tom Cat for exactly 2.25 miles.
Announcements:
- Memorial Day: The Murph at Bounty at 6am; some may start earlier
- 7/16: The Repear
- 9/24 9-11 challenge
- Labor Day weekend will be an Appalachian Trail hike. See Hoist for details
- 10/8:Tough Mudder
Prayers:
- No Show and FiA cancer warriors
- Hoist M with MIL in nursing home
- Coon Dog’s family
- YHC’s family friend with cancer
Devo:
From Galatians 5: 22-26
A nursery owner set out to sell peach trees. She considered various approaches. Should she line up leafy saplings in burlap sacks in a beautiful display? Should she create a colorful catalog picturing peach trees in various seasons of growth? At last she realized what really sells a peach tree. It’s the peach it produces: sweet-smelling, deep orange, and fuzzy-skinned. The best way to sell a peach tree is to pluck a ripe peach, cut it open until the juice dribbles down your arm, and hand a slice to a customer. When they taste the fruit, they want the tree.
God reveals Himself in a wrapper of spiritual fruit in His followers: love, joy, peace, forbearance (patience), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22–23). When believers in Jesus exhibit such fruit, others will want that fruit as well, and, therefore, will seek the Source of the fruit that’s so attractive.
Fruit is the external result of an internal relationship—the influence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Fruit is the dressing that beckons others to know the God we represent. Like the bright peaches standing out against the green leaves of a tree, the fruit of the Spirit announces to a starving world, “Here is food! Here is life! Come and find a way out of exhaustion and discouragement. Come and meet God!”