[Oe List ...] Bill Grow's Passing

[Herman Greene]

Wonderful news about the constitution

On Wed, May 17, 2023, 4:47 AM Isobel and Jim Bishop via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Thank you for all the wonderful tributes your have written on the passing
> onwards of our beloved colleague Bill Grow. The words
>
> you write bring back so many rich memories of my life having been touched
> by the one we are honouring in their death. Special
>
> condolences to Rebecca, Brad, Ian and their families.
>
> Thank you Marilyn, for your words below.
>
> The passing onwards of Bud Ames, Nelson, Bill and Joe Crocker all so
> recently has caused me to once more evaluate my
>
> time here on planet  earth as ‘ one time around the clock’, and to use my
> time with intentionality,  hopefully with grace and
>
> deep purpose.
>
> With love to you all, wherever you put your head on the pillow for rest.
>
> Isobel Bishop
>
> P. S Here in  Australia we are entering our winter months beginning in
> June. Many of us are cautiously positive that towards the
>
> end of this year there will be a National Referendum to alter the
> Constitution- this will mean that for the first time ever, the First
>
> Nations people will have a Voice in their own affairs in our Parliament.
> Next would come ( I hope) a Treaty and Truth telling.
>
> A long journey forwards. I long for this healing process.
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> Isobel and  Jim Bishop
> isobeljimbish at optusnet.com.au
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> > On 16 May 2023, at 5:28 am, Mari Crocker via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Order Colleagues, Rebecca, Brad and Ian,
> >
> > It is with deep sadness that I learned this news, but rejoice that
> Bill’s passing was peaceful and painless.  I still see Bill and Nan the way
> they looked on August 16th, 2020 (during our months of being masked if
> inside) to celebrate their anniversary with a picnic on our front porch.
> This was just six weeks before Nan passed.  As always, Bill knew how to
> symbolize and remember the sacred family moments, even if this required a
> long, round-trip drive from Wallingford CT to Wells ME.
> >
> > Similarly, when Nan turned 80, Bill coordinated (long distance from
> York, PA) a grand birthday party at our home in West Newfield, ME, complete
> with a roast lamb dinner, lots of “Robbie Burns” poetry recitations, and
> the company of friends they knew in the greater Portland area.  Joe had
> just turned 80, and so advised Nan that the next 20 years were to be all
> about Contemplation.  Joe and I always looked forward to the Grow Family
> Christmas Letter — and I missed receiving it this year. It was always a
> masterpiece of poetry, annual history, prayer and music.
> >
> > Speaking of music, I was honored when Bill invited me to join him and
> the Yale Alumni Chorus in its annual performance at Milton Academy, MA
> back in the late 90s/early 00s.  He said, “You know, Marilyn, back in my
> day, there were NO women at Yale — so I got permission to invite a Smith
> Chamber Singers alumna, because we need strong altos.” Not surprisingly,
> the program was challenging : Brahms Liebeslider Waltzes.  I not only had
> to engage a neighbor to coach me in German pronunciation, but also took a
> few lessons to “recover my feminine voice”, having sung tenor for years in
> my local church choir.  I could never have declined such a generous and
> complimentary offer from Bill.
> >
> > Bill’s passion for the renewal of the Local Church was palpable, even
> after our Turn to the World in 1972.  And yet he (always also with Nan)
> graciously flexed to the shift our Order/EI/ICA made to serve as the
> sensitive and responsive force for renewal in the world through extensive
> work with ITIs and HDPs and so much more.  I love the video Jim Wiegel
> shared about Bill’s testimony that “our methods give voice to the nobodies
> of the world.”
> >
> > Finally, I was always deeply moved by Bill's (and Nan’s) commitment to
> love, unconditionally, their four children.  Their grief at losing Cameron
> was profound; as was their love, respect and pride in Rebecca, Brad and
> Ian, and their six grandchildren.  I was blessed to know and come to love
> each of these four fine offspring as they were maturing, off and on,
> between 1968 and 1984 specifically, and since then as accomplished, gifted
> adults.
> >
> > Go gently into this blessed night, dear Bill — we love you
> >
> > Mari (and Joe) Crocker
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