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Kermit Olsen closes his stay with a farewell talk on the “levers of prayer” he learned from Glenn Clark: desire, selflessness, love, and relinquishment. He frames campers as astronauts of the spirit who must train as rigorously as the moonwalkers. The talk came near the end of the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1970.
Kermit Olsen tells campers at the 1970 New Hampshire Winni CFO about his friend Rabbi Lewis Witt. As a boy Witt hated Christians for calling him a Christ killer, but he later said that people who actually live Christ’s love are irresistible. That love is undercut, Olsen preaches, whenever Christians bicker and judge each other.
At the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1970, Kermit Olsen tells of a doctor swimming off South America. The doctor looks back to find sharks circling him, and he forces himself to glide slowly back to the dock instead of panicking. Olsen uses the story to open a talk on facing irrational fears and retraining the mind toward faith.
Kermit Olsen argues that joy and humor are woven into Christian faith. At the 1970 New Hampshire Winni CFO he points to Jesus’ image of a Pharisee straining out a gnat while swallowing a camel, which exposed rule-keeping that ignored real love. He closes with the comic excuses in the parable of the great feast.
Kermit Olsen opens with a judge who cannot decide how to address a room of inmates and settles for, “I’m glad to see so many of you here.” He then teaches three principles for living: know yourself, control yourself, and give yourself. He closes with a blind father who sees his son play football for the first time, in this talk to the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1970.
Kermit Olsen speaks on relax and live, borrowing a lonely sheep herder’s complaint, “too much tingling and bah-bah,” for the wear of monotony. At the 1970 New Hampshire Winni CFO he closes with the old slave hymn “Steal Away to Jesus” as a picture of finding rest in Christ.