PAX: Pope, Goose, Safety Valve

AO: The Stage

By: Safety Valve

YHC had an overwhelming sense of hope this morning. In the cold, dreary, early morning nothingness, there was hope. Hope that 40 other men read the Goose back blast from the 5th anniversary of F3 Thibodaux beatdown that ensued this weekend. Hope that those men would be fired up by his encouraging and inspirational words… “You just gotta get out of the fartsack and show up…”. So, naturally YHC and two other committed joined up at the stage.

Typical Warmaramma with SSH, etc.

1 mile run – perhaps the fastest in F3 history. Goose on his bike, Pope seemingly sprinting and not even breathing hard, and YHC trying to keep up.

AMRAP – 2 minutes at each station with a 3 burpee but in prior

Station 1 – sandbag curls

Station 2- sandbag full body – dead lift to squat to curl to overhead press to lunge

Station 3 – sandbag flutter kicks

Station 4 – sandbag lunges

Station 5 – toilet squats on an actual toilet… yes they were used toilets.

Finished with 2 minutes of LBCs, COT and intentions/prayer.

This naturally led to many discussion of the proper pooping position and how we are self inflicting constipation on ourselves with poor positioning and toilet design. Goose added some helpful advice that lots of water and dried apricots could cure the worst of the constipation blues.

YHC was fed up with clogged toilets. Seems like a toilet was being clogged at least once a week. The opportunity presented itself to change all the toilets out in the house. Hope was there that there would never be a clogged toilet again in the house. YHC was humbled once again just 36 hours in when a half role of toilet paper was attempting to be flushed down the new toilets. Life lesson- never be so confident that you get rid of the plunger. There will always be shit backed up.

Sometimes we can be disappointed if our expected or hopeful outcome isn’t met. Here’s the thing about hope though. It is always there, you just have to be willing to wait sometimes. Even though the expected outcome doesn’t happen, there’s always hope for the next day. Having hope gives us the strength to overcome the setbacks in our life. It’s gives us motivation to get up the next day. Furthermore, hope fuels faith. God doesn’t promise this life is easy. He promises that we lives eternally with him as long as we keep the faith. Hope without faith or faith without hope doesn’t work. We need both.