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Genevieve Parkhurst tells about Martha, who was slapped as a small child for picking flowers meant for her mother’s table. Martha is freed from that hurt when she pictures Jesus meeting the child within her. The story is part of a call, at the Tennessee CFO in 1966, to forgive those who wounded us when we were young.
Genevieve Parkhurst opens on the need for rest, then delivers a set-piece talk on trees. She recalls leaning against a giant redwood in California. She tells of a housebound man who regained his health after a summer spent outdoors under a tree, living on raw vegetables from his own garden. She offers it to campers at the Tennessee CFO in 1966 as a picture of creation’s healing power.
Speaking on the last evening of the Tennessee CFO in 1966, Genevieve Parkhurst describes the Holy Spirit brooding over creation “like a mother hen.” She invites campers who still want the Holy Spirit’s baptism to seek it before the week ends.
Genevieve Parkhurst teaches campers at the Tennessee CFO in 1966 to use “levers” when praying for healing, things to take hold of and pull. Her examples are the woman who touches the hem of Jesus’ robe, an army officer’s trust in a single spoken command, and a daily communion of consecrated grape juice.
At the Tennessee CFO in 1966, Genevieve Parkhurst describes Dr. Hans Selye’s experiments, which showed that mice living under a cat’s constant threat develop stomach ulcers from stress. She then teaches campers to release their worries to God the way she “encapsulates” a troubled person in the light of his love.
Genevieve Parkhurst uses a childhood memory of a neighbor grafting fruit trees and sealing each bud with wax “that no rain could get in.” Healing, she teaches campers at the 1966 Tennessee CFO, comes from staying grafted into Christ through love.