[Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"

Sun Jul 28 04:29:12 PDT 2013

I don't remember Russell at all but always wondered who wrote those lyrics. He may have been our laureate. Regret I never encountered him. From Isobel's description it appears he may have embodied much of which he wrote. 
Randy 

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On Jul 28, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Jaime R Vergara <svesjaime at aol.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Isobel.
> 
> Did not know Russell, nor remember ever meeting him, though, like many, sang Contemplation and Being songs with deep feelings.
> 
> Might someone post a photo? Sandals and safari suit will be a treat.  We are imaginal educators, after all.  80% of what we know comes from what we see.  So, if anyone has a pic, just scan!
> 
> j'aime la vie
> 
> Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Isobel A Bishop <isobeljimbish at optusnet.com.au>
> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> Sent: Sun, Jul 28, 2013 3:22 pm
> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"
> 
> Dear David Walters and all,
> The small part I recall of the late Russell Campbell is this:    ( this will need some help from others.) 
> 
> Russell and Kaye Hayes were assigned to work around the northern part of Australia-   around Darwin and to some of the Aboriginal Mission stations-  Russell used to wear sandals that he had made out of  used tyres. 
> 
> When Russell was living in the Sydney House, he composed both the Contemplation song-  ' Come walk with Francis' and the Being song.  The music would be blaring out  loudly most of the day while he wrote his poetry. 
> 
> 
> Russell always wore a very simple grey 'safari suit' . He had made it himself.  He wore his dark, wavy hair shoulder length. 
> When he was assigned to the children's structures, the children always did interesting and different activities- e.g..,climbing trees. 
> 
> Grace and peace,
> Isobel Bishop
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 27/07/2013, at 6:25 PM, J and J Barker <jkjmbarker at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe good to recall that words written by the late Russell Campbell.
>> 
>> Jonathan B
>> 
>> On 27/07/2013, at 11:58 AM, jonzondo at juno.com wrote:
>> 
>>> thank you, Jaime.
>>> Jon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Please note: message attached
>>> 
>>> From: Jaime R Vergara <svesjaime at aol.com>
>>> To: oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"
>>> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:23:15 -0400 (EDT)
>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> Jon, not formatted the nice way it is on a one sheet but this might work for your purposes:
>>> 
>>> BEING
>>> Tune: Theme from "Black Orpheus"
>>> My life is as Vast as the sea
>>> No boundaries no 
>>> Floor beneath me.
>>> Yet as I look within
>>> No man has greater sin.
>>> I am the least of all
>>> I daily fall.
>>> But it's then when
>>> I Doubt that I can
>>> I choose to be nothing
>>> For man.
>>> To die is my lot
>>> I live as if not
>>> With Paul I merge with all.
>>> I see then as
>>> Never before
>>> The secrets of
>>> heaven my store.
>>> With wisdom twice my age
>>> My life an open page
>>> Though with each insight
>>> Gain a deeper pain.
>>> Yet I live with the Lord on my side
>>> And wild intuition My guide.
>>> I'm sent as a sign
>>> The bread and the wine
>>> My form And virgin born.
>>> Then I act seeing
>>> Action is vain
>>> And accomplishments
>>> Never as gain.
>>> To only do is less
>>> Than forming humanness
>>> So mission I must be
>>> To set men free.
>>> Called to burn as an Undying flame
>>> Each word and each Gesture the Name.
>>> I must through life-loss
>>> An exalted cross
>>> My place
>>> Reveal his face
>>> Then the Lord through
>>> My life prays a prayer
>>> And my being is
>>> Filled being there.
>>> I can invent anew what
>>> All the saints once knew
>>> By being who I am
>>> I create man.
>>> And it's no longer I who is seen
>>> But the Lord standing
>>> There in between.
>>> Finished as I die
>>> Held there between
>>> Sky and sod
>>> To save our God.
>>> Yes, it's there on the limbs of the worm eaten tree where the All and the Nothing can BE.
>>> 
>>> j'aime la vie
>>> 
>>> Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jonzondo <jonzondo at juno.com>
>>> To: oe <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>>> Sent: Sat, Jul 27, 2013 10:09 am
>>> Subject: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"
>>> 
>>> hello community,
>>> 
>>> A last minute request...
>>> If anyone has the lyrics for the song, "Being" I would like to use them for my 
>>> father's memorial service tomorrow.
>>> 
>>> singing in beauty,
>>> Jon
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