At the Delaware CFO in 1961, Geraldine Conway compares her own weed-choked garden to the parable of the sower. She warns that “the care of the world and the deceitfulness of riches” can choke a life before it ever bears fruit.
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At the Delaware CFO in 1961, Geraldine Conway compares her own weed-choked garden to the parable of the sower. She warns that “the care of the world and the deceitfulness of riches” can choke a life before it ever bears fruit.
Geraldine Conway pictures Christians as a walled garden. She once saw such a garden in Texas, an artist’s showpiece shut up so completely that no one could ever see inside. Let down the barriers that keep the fragrance of Christ from a watching world, she urges the 1961 Delaware CFO.
Geraldine Conway describes washing the feet of a dying, soot-covered woman in a lantern-lit shanty. That act, she tells the Delaware CFO in 1961, taught her that serving Christ could be “a pleasure and a joy and a sacrament.”
On the opening night of the Delaware CFO in 1961, Starr Daily urges campers to work the whole program. The fruits of the Spirit must be won by participation, he says, while the gifts come only by grace. He warns that “all negativity is vibration,” and he points out that nature draws no straight lines, because everything alive is curve and rhythm.
Starr Daily traces sickness of body and soul to guilt held silently. He tells how an imprisoned ex-minister was healed the night he could at last forgive himself. He also recalls kneeling five hours on chapel flagstones beside a student who would not forgive her mother’s killer, in a talk to the 1961 Delaware CFO.
At the Delaware CFO in 1961, Starr Daily walks campers through the gates into the kingdom. They run from study, discipline, service, and tithing to work, play, worship, and romance, and last to the inner four of law, love, light, and life. A restless five-year-old prays “Thank you, God, for nothing.” Daily hears in that prayer Socrates, who called himself wisest in Greece because he knew that he knew nothing.