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John David Webster preaches on forgiving both others and himself, describing a closed fist versus an open, letting-go hand. He retells how he had to forgive a housemate’s son who sold the train set he had saved for a son of his own. The message was given at the California Central Pines CFO in 1995.
Gloria Knapstad describes learning to be honest with herself before she can be honest with others. Speaking to the California Central Pines CFO in 2002, she traces a journey that began with a broken engagement and fifteen years estranged from God, and ended in a night of prayer that restored her. She also tells of loving students other teachers had given up on.
At the 2002 California Central Pines CFO, Gloria Knapstad recalls teaching restless students to picture themselves as scattered sunlight that a magnifying glass focuses into fire, then carries that image into her own prayer life. She also shares her joy over her infant granddaughter, and lessons about loving people without a hidden motive.
Gloria Knapstad tells how years of prayer carried her daughter through a paralyzing illness. Later she saw a vision of her mother’s decaying reflection in a mirror, and that vision led her to reconcile with her mother before her mother’s sudden death, and their last words to each other were “I love you.” She was speaking at the California Central Pines CFO in 2002.
Learn how to receive the kindness and love of God in this message taught by Ginnie Moore at the California Central Pines CFO in 1999.