The Friday ReFresh

Welcome in to the Friday Refresh brought to you by Team Ben and Travis for St. Jude Marathon Weekend. We are still trying to reach our goals. HELP US!!! Go to https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/Heroes/SJMMW?pg=personal&px=5816464&fr_id=164588. I need about $300 to hit my goal. Help me out today!

Cooler air.

They all can only mean one thing in my mind: Hunting Season is here.

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Welcome in to the Friday Refresh…brought to you by Team Ben and Travis for St Jude Marathon Weekend. Go to https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/Heroes/SJMMW?pg=personal&px=5816464&fr_id=164588 to donate toward our team and help battle childhood cancer.

Are you an Edwin or a John?

Edwin was one of the most famous actors of his time— having played in many Shakespearean plays and others in the Washington DC area. He was a face almost everyone would recognize. As he was waiting for a train he noticed that a young man fell into the space between the train and the walkway they were standing on—just as the train began to move. It would have surely crushed the young man, whose name was Robert.

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What is the weakest part of the human body? Don't let it be your mind!

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Welcome in to the Friday Refresh brought to you by our St. Jude Marathon Weekend Run. I’ve almost reached my goal of $4000 but still have a few hundred to raise. I would love your help. Go to Benandtravis.com for more details.

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Welcome into the Friday refresh brought to you by St Jude marathon weekend fundraiser. Thanks to all you who helped and donated and played in the Stayin Alice disco dodgeball tournament last weekend. I have less than $1000 to raise for my race so go to https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?px=5816464&fr_id=164588&pg=personal to donate.

Have you ever wondered why we tend to focus more on the negative things in life?

It is what psychologists call Negativity Bias.

Negativity Bias is an innate psychological tendency to emphasize negative experiences over positive ones.

It influences our perception of events, often making us dwell more on bad experiences, like criticism or failure.

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This episode is brought to you by the Tony "Pop Pop" Rogers Stayin' Alive Dodgeball Tournament for St. Jude (www.benandtravis.com/dodgeball)!

I had never heard this phrase until I was sitting in a teacher inservice class earlier this week. Apparently it has become a catchy warning that is being repeated by medical and mental health professionals. What it means is this: Sitting down for too many hours each day hurts your body in serious ways -- just like smoking. While it is true that sitting isn’t as deadly as smoking has proved to be, if sitting all day most of the week, it can certainly lead to a myriad of health -- and mental health -- concerns. Slow blood flow, higher disease risk (such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure), weaker muscles, and weight gain are among the possible risks.

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There is a phrase that I’ve dreaded saying for quite sometime. It is 4 simple words…yet very difficult to say. Dad daughters try to be courageous but these four words cause an aging father to dig deep to get them out.

Her Mother and I.

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It seems that every day I get another reminder of my age.

Sometimes it’s at the gym trying to keep up with adults 20-25 years younger than me.

Sometimes it’s a meme about how old people were in movies, or what year certain classic movies about old times would be portraying if they were made today.

Or the age of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Hint: the biggest majority were younger than me.

One today said “when you realize the old timers that trained you are gone and you are now the old guy doing the training.”

While that’s not entirely true, there are definitely more younger folks in ministry and I feel the pressure of answering things from the “older and wiser” position. While I’m older, I’m not sure I feel wiser.

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This is your Friday refresh brought to you by my St Jude Marathon Weekend Fundraiser. Go to Benandtravis.com to clink the link and give. I got a long way to go to $4000. So go to benandtravis.com and donate to help kids in need and help fund research for cancer.

One of my favorite past times is bowfishing. I consider myself somewhat of an outdoorsman. I like to hike. I love to hunt. I have always loved outdoor sports—from baseball to football to ultimate frisbee and golf. But one of my favorites is bowfishing. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it combines the sport and art of archery with fishing. You have a bow, rigged with a reel and line attached to an arrow. You shoot the fish — where we live it is mostly gar, carp, catfish and buffalo — anything other than game fish like bass and brim. I’ve bowfished at the gulf and in florida wetlands for stingray, crabs, mullet, and tilapia. It is incredibly fun and challenging at the same time. And for me, the fellowship is even better. It is always with some combination of some of my closest friends, mentors, family, and brothers in Christ. One of the coolest things about bowfishing is 95% of the time it is at night on a boat set up with lights able to penetrate the surface of the water and allow us to see things that most people will never see.

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