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From: [email protected]
Category: Category 1
Date: 18 May 1999
Time: 14:50:48
Remote Name: ip189.atlanta14.ga.pub-ip.psi.net
Dear Fellow Members,
In the wake of Greg P.'s passing, I am mindful of the important role he played when I first came to world services. His imagination and fearlessness made it possible for me to convert raw dreams into reality at a time when I was far from being able to do this ordinarily.
I knew he was the writer of our service structure, but I would hear comments about how he used too many words and was too complicated. I guess I took a wait and see attitude on some of this although I would not have allowed someone to actually speak badly of my friend. I suspected and now believe that much of his wisdom was simply lost on ignorant and uneducated people who knew only bits and pieces of certain subjects. Greg always tried to express himself without big words but he could only simplify the truth to a reasonable extent. Without his fearlessness and vision, we would likely still be in the dark ages that preceeded his recovery and service. The truth is we need a hundred Greg's today but the walls of fear and susperstition only rise higher as the people comfuse spirit with presumptousness and courage with ego. Fortunately, information overload equals pattern perception, and so our great hope is that through revealing some of Greg's archives and letting us study the honest attempts to find things useful to the Fellowship, we will grow.
I know that is Greg's dearest dream for NA. He was always baffled by the fact that the original NA Tree form of our service structure was never fully implemented. It still makes interesting reading.
Also, it is by the grace of God that Greg died the way most of us will in the clean life. While he was in great pain, he was surrounded by people who loved and supported him in life and gave warmth and meaning to his final hours. I said to him that all our best dreams had come true. He said, well most of them. I gues that means we have a few dreams to go.
In Loving Service,
Bo S.