Tuesday 1.11.11

Wake Up:
8:00 am

Devotion:
Streams in the Desert
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. (Isaiah 40:1)

Store up comfort. This was the prophet Isaiah's mission. The world is full of hurting and comfortless hearts. But before you will be competent for this lofty ministry, you must be trained. And your trraining is extremely costly, for to make it complete, you too must endure the same afflictions that are wringing countless hearts of tears and blood. Consequently, your own life becomes the hospital ward where you are taught the divine art of comfort. You will be wounded so that in the binding up of your wounds by the Great Physician, you may learn how to render first aid to the wounded everywhere. Do you wonder why you are having to experiance some great sorrow? Over the next ten years you will find many others afflicted in the same way. You will tell them how you suffered and were comforted. As the story unfolds, God will apply the anesthetic He once used on you to them. Then in the eager look followed by the gleam of hope that chases the shadow of despair from the sould, you will know why you were afflicted. And you will bless God for the discipline that filled your life with such a treasure of experience and helpfulness.

God comforts us not to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.
John Henry Jowett

They tell me I must bruise
   the roses leaf,
Ere I can keep and use
   its fragrance brief.

They tell me I must break
   the skylarks heart,
Ere her cage song will make
   the silence start.

They tell me love must bleed
   and friendship weep,
Ere my deepest need
   I touch that deep.

Must it be always so
   with precious things?
Must they be bruised and go
   with beaten wings?

Ah yes! by crushing days
   by caging nights, by scar
Of thorn and stony ways,
   these blessings are!

Workout: Rankel

Morning Workout:

• 3 x 10 DH pullups (all sets unbroken)

Evening Workout:

Warm Up:

• 3 Rounds for quality
• 20 Goblet squat (using 1 35lb db)
• 20 Kneeling chest to overhead (1 35lb db)
• 20 Pushup
• 15 Burpee

Work Capacity: Rankel

• AMRAP in 20 min (7 rounds)
• 12 Deadlift (using 40lb vest and 2 35lb db's)
• 7 Burpee
• 12 DB swing (6 each arm)
• 7 Burpee

Durability:

• 100 situps for time
• 50 supermans

Mobility:

• Mtn Athlete Hip Mobility drills (HAM, HUG, HIM)
• 10 min yoga