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Barbara Ann Chase opens the 1978 West Virginia Fall Retreat CFO on Zephaniah’s promise of restoration and moves to giving up the habit of measuring yourself, arguing from a childhood measuring tape handed over and never returned, and from the sons of Noah walking backwards into the tent to cover him.
Barbara Ann Chase carries on through the ways Jesus makes himself heard for the West Virginia Fall Retreat CFO in 1978, recapping the previous night’s list before adding to it: a fourteen-year-old told to go and put his arms around the brother who had made the house unbearable, and being pulled up short with “Martha, Martha” while sitting idle at a friend’s kitchen table.
David leaves the bones of the lion and the bear behind him in the pasture. Faith and lived experience build each other, Barbara Ann Chase tells the West Virginia Fall Retreat CFO in 1978, and she traces her own from a first communion at seven onward, along with a scarf absent-mindedly tied into a rose.
Loving correction is what Barbara Ann Chase asks for rather than resents at the West Virginia Fall Retreat CFO in 1978, where she finds treasure and abuse alike in every tradition. An idol of jealousy sinks into a bay. Astronauts are put a few degrees back on course rather than turned around.
The 1978 West Virginia Fall Retreat CFO is given the body of Christ as a living thing before Barbara Ann Chase begins listing the ways Jesus actually gets himself heard. A wild goose with a broken wing healed at a filling station, and a warning to bind anything that would counterfeit the exercise, open it.