Paper 1

[PARTICIPANTS DRAFT OF WORK IN PROGRESS - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION - ED]

Wednesday, July 7, 2004

[pic]

Traditions Wars:

a pathway to peace

NA Fellowship Work in Progress

Cover Art

The Phoenix is a legendary bird whose tears have the power to heal. The Phoenix can resurrect itself from its own ashes. When addicts get clean and stay clean, they begin to resurrect themselves from the ashes made of their lives. The twelve primary feathers represent the NA Twelve Steps of recovery. We look at the past with shame, the present with guilt and the future with fear. Recovery changes all that!

copyright © 2003

Victor Hugo Sewell, Jr.

June 12, 2004 version from Draper, Virginia

NA Foundation Group

1516 B Life Oak Drive

Tallahassee, Florida 32301

www.nawol.org

nawol@nawol.org

All rights reserved. This draft may be copied by members of Narcotics Anonymous for the purpose of writing input for future drafts, enhancing the recovery of NA members and for the general welfare of the Narcotics Anonymous Fellowship as a whole. The use of an individual name is simply a registration requirement of the Library of Congress and not a departure from the spirit or letter of the Pledge, Preface or Introduction of this book. Any reproduction by individuals or organizations outside the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous is prohibited. Any reproduction of this document for personal or corporate monetary gain is prohibited.

Dedication:

To all that we lost during these times of spiritual conflict. If you are alive,

clean and have no hatred in your heart, you are victorious not only over your disease

but also our historical episodes.

Begun in February as the Victors of the Traditions Wars, in April we moved to change the name of our new book effort to The Traditions War: a pathway to peace. The phrase was part of a sentence spoken by a member sharing in the Smyrna NA Foundation Group. We had not thought of what happened as a war before, but it was....