DearMrGregoryFParker
Re:YourSpiritualBirthday
On the occasion of your spiritual birthday,
I felt it appropriate that an objective and
unimpassioned assessment of your spiritual
well-beingbecarriedout.
I felt it best that this bepresented along the
linesof a ‘ProsandCons’, sohere it is:
‘Pros’Top10
• FearlesspromulgatorofhisbelovedFaith
• Unabasheddefenderof truth
• Unconditional loverofpractically
everyone
• Unquestioned loyalty in friendship
• Unremittingoptimism in tackling the
seeminglyunachievable
• Ever-flowing fontof all things important,
and trivial…
• Yourmusical legacy–wheredo I even
start….
• Your courage in the faceof adversity
• Theheartsof youngandold that you
have touchedand inspired
• Youracceptanceof things thathave
befallenyou
‘Cons’Top10
• Notquiteperfect yet
•
•
•
Well, I bloody damnwell tried to come up
withmore ‘Cons’ but just couldn’t!
So, Mr Parker, I hope you will not be too
disappointedwith this rather objective and
unimpassioned assessment on this special
dayof yours.
Regards (and a whole bucket load of
unashamed love, admiration and respect
thrown in),
Wing
dare not speak their name. But as you take
us on your journey, you have helped us all
understand thatdeathanddyingand the life
beyondareallpartof life. Andbydoing this,
wehaveallbecomesomuchmorerespectful
of the purpose of our lives, hoping, that
when the time comes, as itwill for all of us,
wewill embrace death aswholeheartedly as
youhave (andhave just a fractionof service
to layat the feetof theBeloved).
One of the quotes which has always
resonated deeply with me, has taken on
powerful meaning, as I think of you, and
relate these words to your life, dearest
GregoryPegoryPooh.
“Soonwill ourhandful of days,
our vanishing life, begone,
andwe shall pass, empty-handed,
into thehollow that isdug
for thosewho speaknomore;
whereforemustwebindourhearts
to themanifestBeauty,
and cling to the lifeline that failethnever.
Wemust girdourselves for service,
kindle love’sflame,
andburnaway in itsheat.
Wemust looseour tongues
tillwe set thewideworld’sheartafire,
andwithbright raysof guidance
blot out thearmiesof thenight…
Well is itwith thedoersof greatdeeds.”
Abdu’l-Baha
PadmaWong
