Q: morning stār
PAX: Derby, Ex-Pat, Étouffée, Pebbles, Half Lyfe, Wolfpack, Gold Digger, Shakira, Tebow, morning stār, Bumble bee (2.0), Rubix (2.0), Birdman (2.0)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: starting to feel gloomy
WARMUP: jog to treeline and circle up for motivators (6 down), lazy imperial walkers, low slow squats
jog to the flood memorial bench
THE THANG: descending ladder with 2 excercises: box jumps and explosive erkins … do 6 of each then bear crawl or crab walk down the hill and politician back, do 5 of each then bear crawl or crab walk down the hill and politician back, do 4 of each, etc. … job around backstop after the set and repeat
did a blind, silent trust walk to the playground
Mary: some dead bugs and supermans
MOLESKINE:
– I’m 42 today; glad to be alive!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: night moves led by Half Lyfe, 50 mile relay, check slack for other things.
COT: I grew up in a home that valued performance and getting things right. My personal tendency is to lean that way and then I went to school to be an engineer. I used to apply that approach to all my endeavors and relationship with the desire to “be excellent”. However, this ultimately put me in a place where I was earning things, even things like love, belonging, acceptance, approval, etc.
Now in my 40’s I’m learning to live out of an identity of already having those things: delight, acceptance, approval, belonging, forgiveness, etc. For me that means grounding myself and learning to experience my identity in Christ and the access I have to God who I’m learning is a good, caring Father (not someone who’s just wanting me to get it right and then criticizing me when I don’t).
As I look into my 43rd year, my desires is to yield more into this via surrender.
Glad to be with you brothers today,
-m*