Backblasts – F3 First State

Bad Crabs

Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Probe, Streudel, Toy Soldier / Leave a Comment / CHOP, Milton, DE / By Johnny Hopkins

Date: 10/09/2025

AO: CHOP, Milton, DE

Pax: Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Probe, Streudel, Toy Soldier

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

SSH – 20 IC

Plank Jacks – 20 IC

Cherry Pickers – 15 IC

Bolt 45’s IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down. 15 squats halfway to full down. 15 full squats.

Windmills – 15 IC

Hydraulic Squats – 10 IC (6 Count)

The Thang

Mosey to Park Pavilion.

Each Pax completed Aiken legs – 20 squats, 20 box jumps, 20 lunges (10 each Leg), 20 Iron Mikes (10 each Leg). After the completion of each evolution, Pax will take a lap around the pavilion circle. Two full evolutions were completed by each Pax.

Pax Moseyed to the municipal parking lot and completed the Burp & Merk – Burpee with ascending merkins up to 10. Each PAX completed a Bear Crawl to each parking space and completed a Burpee with a hand release merkin. Bear Crawl to the next space and complete a Burpee with two hand release merkins. Continue until completing a Burpee with ten hand release merkins.

A break was taken for the F3 Message before moving on to the next exercise.

Each Pax completed the bottom feeder/deconstructed toy soldier set. Crab walk forward from the Governors Walk to the opposite curb and then crab walk backwards to the Governors Walk and complete 100 LBC’s. Rinse and Repeat but completing 50 E2K’s on each side. After the final crab walk, Pax completed 25 big boy sit-ups. Mosey back to CHOP.

F3 Message – See below

Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and the Circle of Trust. Please keep all our HIM in your thoughts and prayer.

F3 Message 10/09/25

When Things Are Overwhelming – #9541

August 7, 2023

My wife always said I usually try to cram in one more thing before I leave for an appointment. No, she was right. Yeah, she’d say that I usually try to make it up on the road, and sometimes I do have to plead guilty I guess. And it usually works okay if the weather’s on my side. And then there are those very rainy days when it’s a little tougher to hurry. You know, you’re zipping down the highway at top speed, and suddenly you feel yourself losing control of the rear wheels. You ever had that happen to you? Yeah, it’s what they call hydroplaning. The water builds up under those tires so that well, you’re suddenly skiing. You’re skimming along on water rather than on the pavement and the rear of your car starts to go somewhere you don’t want it to go. Now, if that’s ever happened to you, you know it is a scary feeling to start hydroplaning because, well, you’re going so fast and you’re starting to start losing control.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “When Things Are Overwhelming.”

Now, our word for today from the Word of God comes from Psalm 42. As we read this, the author is hydroplaning. Well, he didn’t have a car, he had a chariot. And I don’t know if chariots hydroplane or not, but things were moving so fast for him, he was beginning to lose control. In fact, listen to some of the descriptions he gives. He says, “My tears have been my food day and night.” Then as you read on later in this very personal Psalm, he uses words like this: “Why are you so downcast oh my soul? Why are you so disturbed within me?” Then he says, “My soul is downcast within me. All Your waves and breakers, Lord, have swept over me.” This guy’s in bad shape!

He says, “Man, things are just totally out of control.” I was there not too long ago feeling this way. I think it was accumulated over a period of several weeks. Challenges had just been getting much bigger than my resources. Personally I felt like my faith was kind of like a fitted sheet on a king sized bed and I couldn’t quite get it over that fourth corner. I couldn’t get it to reach far enough to cover the particular challenges and the pressures that were accumulating. And I’ll be honest with you, I was overwhelmed, I get there sometimes. I was pretty anxious, I was feeling like I would never catch up. And then I wandered into Psalm 42, where I was hit with a very probing question by a man who was feeling things out-of-control like I was. And as it turned out, that question turned out to be the answer.

Here’s our word for today from the Word of God. The question is in Psalm 42:2. It says this: “When can I go and meet with God?” So the writer says, “I’m losing control. It’s bigger than I am. When can I go and meet with God?” You know, just like the writer of that Psalm, I needed to stop the world and get away for 24 hours with my Bible and a notepad and meet with God. And I did.

That’s been repeated many times. Maybe that’s the prescription for you right now. You say, “Well, there’s too much for me to stop right now.” See, that’s why you need to. Set a time to stop. Stand back, and listen to your Lord for an extended, unhurried chunk of time – for hours, not just minutes. Write down what you’re feeling and what you’re thinking as you’re in His presence for that extended time. And ask Him for a fresh look at the people and the pressures so you can see the forest and not just the trees. Ask Him to help you see it through His eyes. Set some priorities while you’re in that away spot. Make plans. Weed out things that can go. You can trust what you get from God when you’re in an extended time in His presence. And those need to be scheduled on a pretty regular basis.

So, if you’re traveling at high speed, you feel yourself losing control, slow down, hit the brakes, carve out time away where your Lord can show you what He wants, and He can have your undivided attention.

The number one question you have to answer right now is this: “When can I go and meet with God?”

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

Coupon Diamond

Bunt, Chattahoochee, Chauffer, Fireplex, Motown, Probe, quattro, Semi, Toy Soldier / Leave a Comment / Aegis, DE, Georgetown / By Jason Dypsky

QIC: Semi

Warm-a-Rama
20 Michael Phelps i/c
10 hip circles each direction oyo
15 seal waves i/c
20 seal jacks i/c
30 marocan night club i/c

The Thang

Chappie run (water in mouth) to ball fields. Find stack of coupons. Each HIM grabs 2 coupons.

home plate
10 standing twist with coupon
10 coupon chops per side

Nur w/coupons to first base
10 merkins rows w/2 coupons
10 sprawled Curls coupons
15 knee up to squat jump
10 reverse lunge into knee drive w/coupon
20 iron mikes

Bear crawl w/coupons to second
10 ballistic row per side
10 goblet clusters (squat to overhead press)
10 reverse lunge into knee drive w/coupon

3rd F

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/tVBJH589anv6n7VU/?mibextid=D5vuiz
What is your pre game routine?

Crawl bear w/coupons to third
20 press jacks w/coupon
10 squat front raise w/coupon

Nur w/coupons to home plate

Mosey back to AO

Round of Mary

flutter kick, gas pumpers, v ups, 4 count Freddie, and American hammers

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

9 HIM showed today; Semi, Probe, Chauffer, Toy Soldier, Fireplex, Quattro, Bunt, Chattahoochee, Motown

Hill Strong

Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Ruxpin / Leave a Comment / CHOP, Milton, DE / By Johnny Hopkins

Date: 09/16/2025

AO: CHOP, Milton, DE

Pax: Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Ruxpin

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

SSH – 20 IC

Plank Jacks – 20 IC

Cherry Pickers – 15 IC

Bolt 45’s – IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down. 15 squats halfway to full down. 15 full squats.

Imperial Walkers – 20 IC

Windmills – 15 IC

Hydraulic Squats – 10 IC (6 Count)

The Thang

Mosey to “Oh Hill No”.

PAX completed B.O.M.B.’s on the Hill. Each PAX completed 25 Burpees, 50 Overhead Claps completed as SSH’s, 75 Merkins, 100 Big Boy Sit-up’s, 125 squats. After each exercise, Pax scaled the Hill in a different manner. After the Burpees, Pax crawl beared up the hill and moseyed down. After the SSH’s, Pax bear crawled up the hill and moseyed down. After the merkins, Pax Nur’d up the hill and moseyed down. After the Big Boy Sit-up’s, Pax took a breather for the F3 message. Once complete all Pax completed the squats and moseyed up and then back down the hill.

Mosey back to CHOP

F3 Message 09/16/25

A Fatal Shot, a Wounded Generation

September 12, 2025

By Ron Hutchcraft

I’m writing this on September 11. Twenty-four years ago today, I watched on television as the Twin Towers crumbled to dust. Twenty-four hours ago, I saw the shocking assassination of a hugely popular Gen Z influencer in front of 3,000 people. In both cases, millions were devastated in disbelief and grief. Including reporters, politicians, law enforcement spokesmen – and lots of ordinary folks. And while the scope of the 2001 tragedy was clearly greater, the trauma of yesterday’s assassination hit many young people very personally. Watching the tears of others yesterday, I found myself praying again what I cried out to God 24 years ago. “God, what do You see here?” The answer was the same both times. Souls. Lost souls. Grieving souls. Eternal souls.

I’ve worked with young people my entire adult life. And as years have gone by, I’ve seen many of them become less and less engaged with their world and with current events. Many of them know tons about Taylor Swift’s love life but can’t find Ukraine on a map or tell you the name of the Vice President. But they were drawn to Charlie Kirk, who was dedicated to involving them in major issues of our time. A prime time CNN host said yesterday: “If you don’t know who Charlie Kirk is, ask your teenager or your college student.” Kirk was, in a sense, a generational prophet to many of them. He had over 5 million followers on X (formerly Twitter) and hundreds of thousands of listeners to his podcast and radio program. Observers characterize many of today’s young people as disconnected. But they connected with Charlie Kirk. To countless millions of young people, he was finally a voice they felt they could trust. Suddenly, he was gone. For me, this isn’t about Charlie Kirk’s politics or culture war perspectives. It is, of course, about his wife Erika and their two children. I know “the Lord is close to the brokenhearted” (Psalm 34:18) and she’s clearly expressed her relationship with Him. I pray Jesus will envelope them in His strong and comforting arms.

I do see what God showed me on that dark September 11 years ago. Those souls. The emotional outpouring that floods social media now gives testimony to the deep sense of personal loss so many young people are feeling today. After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, there was a hole in our hearts that none of our usual “go to” answers could fill. So we turned to God. Churches were full. Prayer was everywhere. Many finally opened their hearts to the Savior who died for them and beat death by His Resurrection.

For many contemporary young people, yesterday’s loss has left their own hole in their heart. That’s where it’s about “souls.” This trauma will be, for many, a “turning point.” For some, to anger, retribution, disillusionment, despair. All destinations devoid of hope. Or to Jesus. Whose hope is stronger than death, guaranteed by an empty tomb. We are desperate for a generation that doesn’t carry all the baggage we have or suffer from the angry poison we’ve consumed. A spiritual awakening may well be our only real hope. And our young people may be our only real hope of a better tomorrow. I’m praying the death of a looked-to leader may lead them to the Leader whose life and hope are eternal. Jesus called us in life to tell our world about His unloseable love – and to let them experience that love through us.

At the unforgettable Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, there is a simple but profound exchange between the honor soldier coming on duty and the one leaving. For some 75 years, every guard leaving has said, “Orders remain unchanged.” To which, the new guard salutes and responds, “Orders acknowledged.” Two thousand years ago, Jesus gave a band of disciples His final orders: “You shall be My witnesses” (Acts 1:8).

No matter the loss, no matter the cost. Orders remain unchanged.

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

Farmer carry lap – Gritmill 6/19/25

Honeycomb, Mr. Mom, Semi / Leave a Comment / DE, First Town, Lewes / By Jason Dypsky

QIC: Semi

Warm-a-Rama
15 seal jacks i/c
15 mountain man pooper i/c
15 Imperial walkers i/c
Capri lap
Side shuffle across parking lot, nur to next parking spaces, side shuffle across parking lot, mosey back to start
15 plank jacks i/c
15 seal waves i/c
15 mountain climbers i/c

The Thang

Farmer carry endurance lap
Grab 2 coupons and only using your hands on the coupon (no arms through the coupon) wosey around perimeter of the parking lot. When a HIM puts the coupons down for rest, leave coupons and mosey around till you get back to the coupons. Continue until lap is completed.

Halfway complete 15 Curls for the girls and 10 blockes

Ended with round of mary: gas pumpers, American hammers, lbcs

Protect Your Temple: Day 1 • Devotional
Take Care of Your Body
If you are over 30, you may recall an early ad campaign from the sportswear company Under Armor in which a football player gives a motivational speech to his teammates. Towards the end, he states, “We must protect this house! Will you protect this house!”
When I think about my house, I typically think about my family and physical home. What about your physical body? Don’t we dwell within our bodies?
In 1 Corinthians 3:16, Paul writes, “Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?” Later, Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 6:19, “Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God?”
Our bodies are temples where the Holy Spirit dwells. God gave us only one body in this life. Our families, friends, and livelihood depend on our physical bodies functioning at a high level. Taking care of our bodies is our responsibility.
Like many things in life, we have a choice. Do you do things to take care of your body or not? Do you treat your body with respect? Do you get proper nourishment? Do you get enough exercise? Do you get enough rest? This plan will encourage you to take better care of your body and physical health. We must protect this house!

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

3 HIM showed today: Semi, Mr. Mom, Honeycomb

Gritmill Tabata

Box Car, Ruxpin, Scatterfield, Semi / Leave a Comment / DE, Milford, The Grit Mill / By Jason Dypsky

QIC: Semi

Warm-a-Rama
15 Michael Phelps i/c
30 Marocan night club i/c
15 seal waves i/c
Capri lap – side shuffle across parking lot, nur to other parking spaces, side shuffle back across, mosey back to start
15 shoulder taps i/c
20 windmills i/c
15 mountain climbers i/c

The Thang

Tabata, using small coupons
8 rounds of 6 excercises
Curls – palms up, hammer
Flys (shoulders on large coupon) – palms up, palms in
Squats – 6″, wide
Bench press (shoulders on large coupon) – elbows in, palms together
Holding chair chest squeeze – extended, close
Abs – gas pumpers, lbcs

3rd F
9 lessons from F3
1. You can go a lot farther with others by your side.
2. Men need challenges to stay sharp mentally, physically, and emotionally.
3. Confidence is built by setting and accomplishing goals.
4. Competition makes us better.
5. Sweat and shared suffering build strong bonds.
6. If you’re not accelerating, you’re decelerating.
7. You’re stronger than you think you are.
8. The COT is great therapy.
9. Friends make life worth living and loving.

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

4 HIM showed today: Semi, Ruxpin, Boxcar, Scatterfield

My Two Favorite Things

Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Probe, Streudel, Toy Soldier / Leave a Comment / CHOP, Milton, DE / By Johnny Hopkins

Date: 08/12/2025

AO: CHOP, Milton, DE

Pax: Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Probe, Streudel, Toy Soldier

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

Burpees – 10 OYO

SSH – 20 IC

Cherry Pickers – 15 IC

Bolt 45’s IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down. 15 squats halfway to full down. 15 full squats.

Burpees – 10 OYO

Windmills – 15 IC

The Thang

Pax moseyed to the Park pavilion and completed 10 burpees. Pax moseyed to “Oh Hill No” and completed 10 burpees at the bottom of the hill, nur’d up the hill and moseyed back down for 10 more burpees. Next all Pax moseyed to the Town parking lot and completed 10 burpees. A short mosey to the Boat ramp for 10 more burpees. Nur up the big hill to the Church parking lot for 10 burpees. Mosey to the Police Station and complete 10 more burpees. A short mosey to the flag pole at the fire station and complete 10 burpees. Nur up the hill to Mill Street and back down and finish up with a toy soldier set of 50 LBC’s, 25 E2K’s each side, and 15 Big Boy Sit Ups. One final set of 10 Burpees compliments of Chattahoochee.

Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and the Circle of Trust. Please keep all our HIM in your thoughts and prayers.

F3 Message 08/12/25

The Jobs We Don’t Want To Do – #3008

As our kids were growing up, Saturday was always chore day at the Hutchcraft house. It was the day we got our leaves raked and bagged, rooms got cleaned – or hosed out like a monkey cage – it was the day the garage got dug out, the dirty clothes got clean, broken things got fixed, you know. Now it wasn’t that kids jumped out of bed on Saturday morning saying, “What do you have for me to do today, Dad?” No, Saturday mornings often involved some delicate labor negotiations – especially when it came to someone getting a job that meant more time and more dirty work than some of the others. That child might say, “I don’t want to do Job A. I want Job B.” To which I would reply, “I pay the allowances and the bonuses around here. (See, usually there was extra pay for extra work). Don’t forget lesson #1 of working – you don’t pick your jobs. The person who pays you decides the jobs you’ll do.”

Well, I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You about “The Jobs We Don’t Want To Do.”

Now our word for today from the Word of God comes from Acts 10, where Simon Peter is being assigned by His boss to do an unpleasant chore. Peter has been preaching Christ to Jewish audiences who knew the Scriptures and respected God’s laws. Now, God wants Peter to now reach out to go to the house of Cornelius, a Roman military leader, to reach out to this Gentile. Now Peter’s lifelong feeling about Gentiles could be summed up in one word – “yuck!” They didn’t know the Bible; they ate what the Jewish law called unclean foods; they lived outside God’s laws. Well, God sends Peter a vision to prepare him for this job he is not going to want to do. It’s a vision of a sheet with animals that Peter, as a Jew, considers unclean to eat.

Acts 10:13 – “Then a voice told him, ‘Get up, Peter, Kill and eat.’ ‘Surely not, Lord!’ Peter replied. ‘I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.’ The voice spoke to him a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.” Well, immediately Peter finds at his door men who have come to invite him to the house of Cornelius, the Gentile. The Bible says, “Peter said to the men, ‘I’m the one you’re looking for’…Then Peter invited the men into the house to be his guests.” And the next day he’s off to meet Cornelius.

God gave Peter a job he really didn’t want to do. But Peter knew who the Boss was, and that the One who pays you decides the job you’ll do. Peter obeyed, and it led to some amazing results. Now maybe God has given you an unpleasant chore, and you’re balking, just like my kids on a Saturday morning.

It could be God is leading you to befriend a person who isn’t very attractive, who may be pretty demanding. Or the assignment may be to share Christ with someone who isn’t much fun to be around or is hard to talk to; or to minister to a group of people that you find irritating or even repulsive; possibly to work closely with someone who is definitely not your type. Whatever the job you don’t feel like doing, tell the Lord your reservations – like Peter. Then go ahead and do it anyway – like Peter. And like Peter, you’ll probably get some important results – in what it will do for them and how it will grow you.

I’m really glad Jesus doesn’t just hang around with people who are His type – you and I wouldn’t stand a chance. No, He will reward you generously for doing the unpleasant chores, the ones that will stretch you. So if your Lord is giving you a job you don’t want to do, will you trust His judgment over yours? Then start on it today without delay. It is an assignment Jesus has been preparing for you long before today. Believe me, doing what the Boss says to do will pay off!

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

8/7/25 – Playground Time

Box Car, Dory, Scatterfield, Semi, Shutter / Leave a Comment / DE, Milford, The Grit Mill / By Jason Dypsky

QIC: Semi

The Thang

Mosey to playground behind Milford Church of God

7 swerkins
7 hanging knee lifts
7 burpees

4 to 5 rounds completed

3rd F
This is the scripture I used for 2 morning devotions at youth camp the last 2 weeks.

Ephesians 5:8-14 ESV
[8] for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light [9] (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), [10] and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. [11] Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. [12] For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. [13] But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, [14] for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

https://bible.com/bible/59/eph.5.8-14.ESV
2 Corinthians 4:6 ESV
[6] For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

https://bible.com/bible/59/2co.4.6.ESV

Psalm 27:1 ESV
[1] The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.27.1.ESV

Snuff out cans

Family issues
Work
Electronics
School
Sickness?

Fire is sometimes used to represent life. As you saw that can be snuffed out by the world, but we have an eternal light that is shining through us. Engaging to Impact is simple a smile, hug, holding a door, or saying an encouraging word.

Matthew 5:14-16 ESV
[14] “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. [15] Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. [16] In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.5.14-16.ESV

Luke 8:16 ESV
[16] “No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.

https://bible.com/bible/59/luk.8.16.ESV

Mosey back to AO

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

5 HIM showed today: Semi, Dory, Boxcar, Shutter, Scatterfield

Revised Semi 3.14

Box Car, Dory, Focker, Ruxpin, Semi, Shutter / Leave a Comment / DE, Milford, The Grit Mill / By Jason Dypsky

QIC. Semi

Warm-a-Rama
17 Seal jacks.           I/c
14 Cherry picker.      I/c
17 ssh.                       I/c
Capri lap – side shuffle across parking lot, nur to other spaces, side shuffle back across, mosey to start.
14 Windmill.              I/c
17 seal waves.          I/c
14 MMP.                    I/c

Mosey to surf bagel

7 burpees mosey around parking lot, 7 merkins mosey around parking lot, 7 squats mosey around parking lot for 3 rounds.

Mosey to library

Toy Soldier set
50 lbcs
25 e2ks
10 big boys
Mosey around library, going up and down all steps

3rd F

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
1 Peter 5:6‭-‬10 ESV
A good affirmation that you are not alone in your struggles. There is season for everything. God will restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

Mosey to playground by bridge

25 hanging leg lifts

Mosey back to AO

Number Rama

Name Rama

COT

6 HIM showed today. Semi, Focker, Shutter, Boxcar, Ruxpin, Dory

A Hill of a Super 21 Cycle

Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Gump, Probe, Ruxpin, Streudel, Whirlybird / Leave a Comment / CHOP, Milton, DE / By Johnny Hopkins

Date: 07/01/2025

AO: CHOP, Milton, DE

PAX: Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Gump, Probe, Ruxpin, Streudel, Whirlybird

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

Imperial Walkers – 20 IC

Cherry Pickers – 15 IC

Bolt 45’s IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down. 15 squats halfway to full down. 15 full squats.

Moroccan Night Clubs – 51 IC

Windmills – 15 IC

Hydraulic Squats – 10 IC

The Thang

The Super 21 Cycle on a Hill starting from Strawberry Alley to Mill Street on Chestnut Street. 1 Merkin to 1 Big Boy Sit up. Nur up the Hill. 21 Merkins to 21 Big Boy Sit ups. Run down the Hill. 2 Merkins to 2 Big Boy Sit ups, Nur up the Hill. 20 Merkins to 20 Big Boy Sit ups. Run Down the Hill 3 merkins to 3 Big Boy Sit ups. Nur up the Hill 19 Merkins to 19 Big Boy Sit ups. You Get the pattern..!! Pax completed the evolution down from 15 Merkins to 15 Big Boy Sit ups on top of the hill and to 8 Merkins and 8 Big Boy Sit ups at the bottom of the hill. A break was taken for the F3 message. Pax finished strong with 1 burpee at the bottom of the hill and a Nur up the hill to complete 21 Burpees before the Circle of Trust.

F3 Message

Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and the Circle of Trust. Please keep all our HIM in your thoughts and prayers.

F3 Message 07/01/2025

Pushing the Goal, Missing the Process – #5022

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Chimney Mountain! I had to get to the top of it. Why? Because it was there! Of course, I had to drag my young family into this obsession with me. One vacation day, I made that “Daddy’s Great Adventure for the Day.” Now it wasn’t a steep hike; a trail through the woods that gradually took you to the top of the mountain. As we walked along, my wife and the kids kept noticing little things – like chipmunks and squirrels and flowers and interesting rocks. Of course, whenever we noticed one of those little things, we had to stop; which was not my favorite thing to do. I had a goal, folks, and chipmunks and interesting rocks didn’t help me get to it. At one point, they stopped us just to listen to the wind blowing through the tall pine trees. That’s nice, you know, but not if you wanted to see the top of Chimney Mountain before sunset. Finally, my frustration made it to my mouth, “Honey, the reason for this hike is to get to the top. Don’t you understand?” To which she said something like this: “Oh, I thought we came to enjoy the hike.” Great! I was interested in the result; she was interested in the process!

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “Pushing the Goal, Missing the Process.”

Later, my wife and I were reflecting on our different perspectives about our Chimney Mountain expedition (and we did finally get to the top, by the way). My wife said, “I wonder if this was a little like God and us. We are more interested in getting the result we want, and He’s more interested in the process.”

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from 2 Samuel 22:31, “As for God, His way is perfect.” I think when the Bible talks about God’s way, it isn’t just talking about where we end up. It’s talking about the road He takes us on; the methods He uses. OK, I’ll have to agree with my wife – the process. And His process is always perfect, but certainly not predictable.

In Isaiah 55:8-9 it says, and God is speaking here, “‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.'” God’s ways, God’s means of getting us to the answer are unpredictable: “beyond finding out” in the words of Romans 11.

Which brings us to whatever mountain you’re working on right now. If you’re like me, you’re focused on the result you need: the money, the life partner, the healing, the place to live, the job, the change, the answer! You’re in a hurry to get to the top of the mountain. But God, the God whose ways are perfect, is asking you to slow down and enjoy the hike, let the process be beautiful, not just the destination.

The easy part for God is giving you your answer; showing you the top of the mountain. The hard part for God is you – getting you to be the man or woman He redeemed you to be. And He’s using this climb to develop faith in you, or deeper personal holiness, or humility, or to move you from trusting in yourself to totally trusting in Him. He wants you to become a better you on the way to the answer that you want so much.

I’m by nature a goal-oriented person. Just ask my fellow hikers. But in recent years, God’s teaching me an exciting new way to pray: “Lord, I ask You for this answer we need, but please do it in Your time and in the way that will bring You the most glory and us the most growth.” Surrender to your Lord is more than just, “God, give us what You think is best.” It’s a total surrender to whatever timetable He wants, whatever process He wants to use, and whatever He wants to make you go through on your climb up the mountain.

We want to scale the mountain. God wants to change the mountain climber, and He’s using the trail to show you what you need to be. You are His goal. So, enjoy the process.

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

Farm Carry Endurance Lap

Box Car, Dory, Ruxpin, Semi, Shutter / Leave a Comment / DE, Milford, The Grit Mill / By Jason Dypsky

QIC: Semi

The Thang

Halfway complete 10 Curls for the girls and 9 blockes

We completed 5 moseys equaling about a mile, and about a 3 tenths of a mile farmer carry.

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5 HIM showed today: Semi, Ruxpin, Shutter, Boxcar, Dory