Don’t Limp Through Life….(Painhurst)

Twelve Pax, took the Daily Red Pill (DRP) this morning and got better.

The Pax: CPT D, MadBum, T-Bone, Sparky, Chitwood, Flying Tomato, Rifleman, Aruba, Meatsweats, Napalm, and Josey  (Q: Squirrel)

The Scene: Wonderful morning to be out in the Gloom

Warm Up:  Arm circles, Windmills, Good Mornings, and SSH

The Thang: AMRAP

• 1st Five minutes: 5 Merkins, 5 Reverse crunch, 5 squats
• REST 1 min
• 2nd Five minutes: 10 Merkins, 10 Reverse crunch, 10 squats
• REST 1 min
• 3rd Five minutes: 20 Incline Merkins, 20 WWII sit ups, 20 lunges (ea leg)
• REST 1 min
• 4th Five minutes: 5 Derkins, 5 WWII sit ups, 5 lunges (ea leg)
• REST 1 min
• Last 5 minutes: 
  • 1 minute wall sit
  • 1 minute plank
  • 1 minute step ups
  • 1 minute wall sit
  • 1 minute Merkins

The PAX all moved to a curb for 1 minute of “Slant board” squats.  Keep the head up, back straight up and down.  

3 minutes of Mary

 

Prayer requests:

1. Prayers for all the kids heading off to school

Announcements:

1. WHAT: Farm Day Beatdown at T-Bones, WHERE: 3943 Big Oak Church Rd, Eagle Springs, NC 27242, WHEN: 0730 start time, breakfast to follow the hijinx

 

   T-Bone led us out in prayer

 

MOLESKINE: Don’t Limp Through Life….

I read the below recently, these are not my words…timeless wisdom.

“One reason why so many men live such uninteresting lives is, they live by proxy. By proxy I mean we give away who we could be by allowing others to represent us.  Most of our opinions, joys and experiences are second-hand.  Too stupid to play the game of Life for ourselves, we sit in the grandstand and pay others to play it for us.

We go to the show and have our fun and romance vicariously. We don’t try to find romance in real life, we think it exists only in novels or on the screen.

We go to the athletic field and pay others to play for us while we sit hunched up with our indigestion and diabetes. Everybody ought to play part of the time and not some people all the time.

We go to school and instead of learning there to think for ourselves, which is the only value of an education. We come away tanked up on other men’s ideas, our heads crammed with odds and ends of information. And we go through life using other men’s brains, mistaking information for education.

We go to the polls and vote and most of us couldn’t explain the difference between a Democrat and a Republican for our lives. We usually vote like our granddaddy. Most of us are Democrats and Republicans for the same reason that we’re Baptists and Methodists it just runs in the family.

We go to church and listen to some man explain religion. And pay him for it. But never investigate religion for ourselves, never try it out in our own lives. As a result, most of the religious opinions of men are secondhand conclusions borrowed from somebody else.                                                                                                              Few people are personally acquainted with Jesus Christ, they have only heard of Him through an interpreter.     

 

So we live by proxy – other people do our living for us. We do not go directly to the Garden of Life for our food, we live on mental and spiritual canned goods prepared in the laboratories of others. We live as a man who might travel by changing from one train to another and never using his own legs. –We never know the joy of original thought and independent living.

Don’t limp through life on the crutches of other men’s opinions. And don’t depend on some preacher to find and explain God to you. You are as near to that Higher Power as anybody. Truth and beauty and love and God are everywhere as the air and sunshine. Nobody has a monopoly on the eternal treasures, they are as free to you as to Coolidge or the Pope or Henry Ford.

Quit living by proxy. Get out of the easy chair and walk on your own feet. Don’t live second-hand life!”

~Vance Havner

This article originally appeared in the Charlotte Observer, 12/26/1926

 

We think we live in unprecedented times.  Things like “this” haven’t happened before.  STOP….let’s all just get over ourselves.  We’re not so special.

“Don’t limp through life on the crutches of other men’s opinions.”  I like that line.  Let’s play full out!  Let’s finish well.

Love.

Live,

Forgive.

Laugh.

Cry.

Play.

Serve.

 

Aye!