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<h1><br></h1><h1>BEING</h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My life is as</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vast as the sea</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No boundaries no</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Floor beneath me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yet as I look within</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No man has greater sin.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am the least of all</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I daily fall.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But it’s then when I </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Doubt that I can</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I choose to be nothing </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For man.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To die is my lot </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I live as if not</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With Paul</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I merge with all. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I see then as </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Never before</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The secrets of </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">heaven my store.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With wisdom twice my age</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My life an open page</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Though with each insight</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gain a deeper pain.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yet I live with the </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lord on my side</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And wild intuition</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My guide.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m sent as a sign</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The bread and the wine</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My form</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And virgin born. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then I act seeing</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Action is vain</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And accomplishments</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Never as gain.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To only do is less</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Than forming humanness So mission I must be</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To set men free.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Called to burn as an Undying flame</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Each word and each </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gesture the Name.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I must through life-loss</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An exalted cross</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My place</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reveal his face </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then the Lord through </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My life prays a prayer</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And my being is </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Filled being there.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I can invent anew what</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All the saints once knew</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By being who I am </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I create man.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And it’s no longer</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I who is seen</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But the Lord standing </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There in between.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Finished as I die</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Held there between</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sky and sod</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To save our God.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, it's there on the limbs of the worm‑eaten tree where
the All and the Nothing can BE.</p>
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</tbody></table><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:07 PM, <a href="mailto:jonzondo@juno.com">jonzondo@juno.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonzondo@juno.com" target="_blank">jonzondo@juno.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hello community,<br>
<br>
A last minute request...<br>
If anyone has the lyrics for the song, "Being" I would like to use them for my father's memorial service tomorrow.<br>
<br>
singing in beauty,<br>
Jon<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Paula <br><br><font size="1" color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><em>Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow</em>.</font></div>
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