I remember being at an SA retreat in Oregon in 1995, when an old-timer named Harry gave Roy a hug during a speaker meeting, forgiving him for something. I was quite moved.
Writing from your heart the vision splendid,
Endowing SAs hence to know God’s power,
Let love for fellow members be unended,
Let the healing Twelve flourish and flower.
Following are the last three paragraphs from Roy’s final letter to the fellowship.
I love this fellowship—with the whole history of its problems and adversity. God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
The Reno, Nevada group has two meetings a week and four regular members. We have a website and are working on other ways to pass the message about our meetings, in a manner that is attractive and not promotive.
The Middle Tennessee Fellowships will once again host the winter International Conventions. Our theme describes the result of following the journey of Twelve Step Recovery: when we thoroughly follow this path, we will have a spiritual awakening and enter into the “Fellowship of the Spirit.”