03/16/2023
F3 Angry… Bird Chest
QIC: MacDaddy
5 Outstanding bird chested HIM showed up at the Gritmil for a FabTabulous Beatdown.
Focker, Woodstock, Roscoe, Ruxpin, MacDaddy.
Warm-O-Rama
Single Sided Giant Arm Circles, Forward Only X 10 in cadence.
Swimmers Stretch X 10 in cadence.
Whirli-Stocks X 15 in cadence.
MacDaddy Merk 45s in cadence. Recently, as of today, changed to MacDaddy Merk 30s.
The Thang
HIM will “The Price is Right Run” to the basketball court.
Team up: Partner sprints to other side of B-Ball court and Lt Dans back while partner starts Merkins.
Stop when combined team finishes 200 Merkins.
3rd F
In the spirit of Merkin Madness, I’d like to talk about anger. As men, I know this is something we can all relate to.
Anger is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s in the schools, it’s in the work environment, and we even see it driving down the roads. Let me share with you a little story.
An everyday honest man was being tailgated by a stressed-out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly, the light turned yellow just in front of him, and he decided to make a full stop. He did the right thing, stopping at the light where there was also a crosswalk. He could have easily beaten the yellow light by accelerating through the intersection, but he did the right thing and came to a complete stop. The tailgating woman just flew off the handle as she slammed on the horn with one hand, while giving the middle finger with the other, screaming in frustration that she missed her chance to get through the intersection.
Does this sound familiar? Maybe we can relate.
Well, as she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window. She looked up and saw the face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up. Then, he took her to the police station where she was searched, fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in a holding cell.
After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened the door. She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal effects. He said to her, “Mam, I’m very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, cussing up a storm, and flipping off the guy in front of you. It was then, that I noticed the ‘Choose Life’ license plate holder, the ‘What Would Jesus Do’ bumper sticker, the ‘Follow Me to Sunday-School’ bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk. So naturally, I assumed that you had stolen the car.
You see men, anger has so much power and can have control over any individual, anyone one of us can be subject to it.
The word Anger found in the dictionary as a Noun that says: a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility. As a Verb, it means to fill with anger, or provoke anger in.
As Christians, High Impact Men, Role Models, Teachers, & Leaders in our home and our community, we are certainly not exempt from this behavior of anger, in fact the Bible says in
Proverbs 27:4, “Wrath is fierce, and anger is a flood”. “Anger is a Flood”.
What does that mean?
Take a moment and think of a flood and what it looks like. Here we have a flood that just comes roaring in, and what is it doing, it’s destroying people, property, and everything in its path.
It’s just so powerful, it rips through and destroys everything.
This is why we need to get control of our anger, because it can ruin us, and everyone around us.
Ephesians 4:31 – “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with malice.”
Let’s look at Cain. He became angry with his brother Abel, and then what happened, he murdered him.
Prior to this event, you find in Genesis 4:6-7: God said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why are you looking down? Will not your face be happy if you do well? If you do not do well, sin is waiting to destroy you. Its desire is to rule over you, but you must rule over it.”
God is speaking about self-control. We need to hold our tongue, control our temper, and rule over our anger, to keep that flood from ruining everything we love.
Back to the Thang:
Teams split up again. Parner places feet against the fence and start Mike Tysons, Then, partner Frog Hops to free throw line, Bear Crawls to center line, then Crossovers to the fence, return to partner with a sprint and switch until a total combine 100 Mike Tyson are completed.
The Price is Right Run back to AO, but not before stopping to do Lt Dans across the bridge.
HIM finished strong with plenty of time for the COT.
Good push, literally….