Messages spoken at the 1999 Northern California CFO
Northern California CFO 1999:
9 messages.
The 1999 Northern California CFO met at Monte Toyon Camp, Aptos, in June 1999. The speakers were Barbara Deal and Doug Bolin, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith, Family, Guidance, Inner Healing, Kingdom Living, Love, Peace, Prayer and Spiritual Growth. Choose a message below to listen.
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Doug Bolin tells the 1999 Northern California CFO of his grandparents’ homestead, and a boy who could only see a neighbor’s windmill by kneeling at a keyhole, and makes willing pursuit of God’s presence the point.
Doug Bolin admits to the 1999 Northern California CFO that homesickness ambushed him in his own prayer group, traced back to a third-grade night at his aunt’s farmhouse, and that the group hugged him back into wholeness. He then picks up his family’s homestead story, the post office on the open Nebraska prairie, the church a dozen quarrelling nationalities somehow built, and the reformed drunk they elected sheriff.
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Doug Bolin traces his mother’s lifelong bond with a horse named Hickory and her decision to set it free, at the Northern California CFO in 1999, then lays his own amends with his dying father alongside it.
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Barbara Deal braids Frank Laubach’s literacy campaign in Lanao with her own night stranded past curfew in Manila, and a Kenyan mother who refused to let her daughters be cut. From the Northern California CFO in 1999.
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Reading the opening of 2 Corinthians as the verse he has lived by, Doug Bolin tells the 1999 Northern California CFO that the comfort we receive is given to be passed on. He sets it beside his own family: five brothers who rode their fence lines with Winchesters to hold a homestead, and whose descendants then fractured into rifts nobody could explain.
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Taking up Glenn Clark’s line that time and space are two toys, Barbara Deal asks what part of a situation God does not already know. She illustrates restraint with a search dog told to “leave it” during the Oklahoma City recovery, in this talk to the 1999 Northern California CFO.
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Closing the Northern California CFO in 1999, Barbara Deal separates magical thinking from real surrender, and sets an autistic boy, who leapt into her arms, beside Mother Teresa’s refusal to be paralyzed by the ten thousand she could not reach.
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Barbara Deal offers four questions as a daily practice: “who am I,” “why am I here,” “where am I” and “what am I to do.” She describes losing a job and a business partnership in the same year, speaking to the Northern California CFO in 1999.
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At the Northern California CFO in 1999, Barbara Deal bookends her talk with Glenn Clark’s passage on great stillness. She recounts composing a chorale in Bach’s church at Leipzig, a convent on Iona she felt she already knew, and launching a literary agency on almost nothing.
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