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

Bill Schlesinger pvida at whc.net
Sun Jul 28 05:01:55 PDT 2013


My memories of Russ were from the Westside days.  Gentle, insightful.  Dark hair and dark eyes.  Calm.  

 

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From: oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Isobel A Bishop
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 1:22 AM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
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




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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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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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