BE YOU

BE YOU. Sounds so simple, doesn’t it?

Many years ago I stood playing guitar and singing nervously on a bluff in the campgrounds at The Kerrville Folk Festival, in the achingly beautiful Hill Country of Texas. It was shortly before I would perform two of my songs on the main stage in front of a group of judges, so yes indeed I was a bundle of nerves. To calm myself, I was playing a song I had written for that express purpose, and I was overheard by a small group of people, one of whom approached me to say, “That is honestly the most beautiful song I have ever heard”. It wasn’t one of the songs I was performing at the Festival, perhaps it should have been, and I never recorded it (or yet, anyway), but all these years later, it’s what I remember most clearly of that amazing experience at Kerrville.

First Verse;

“In my mind, many shadows and illusions

yet somehow, every day my way seems clear

I reach inside to the One who guides me

I am so grateful that You are near.

Chorus;

Oh the flow becomes destiny

And the only way out is through.

The pathway so wide and free

Shows me

That all that really matters is true

You know it’s true

Be You”

Second Verse;

“There’s a peace inside me

that was born to be shared

It’s a peace born of struggle and despair

And if there’s anything that I have ever learned

It’s that Love is the antidote to Fear

Chorus

Last verse;

And I know I’ll have to leave here

with many things undone

There never is the time to stop

and take it in

But we’re given all these gifts

We claim them for our own

And we touch the lives around us

With our song.

Chorus; Oh the Flow becomes Destiny

And the only way out is through

The pathway so wide and free

Shows me

All that really matters is true

You know it’s true

Be You.

I thought those lyrics might be the perfect way to start this blog that I’ve been obsessing over for the last two years, wanting to get started, pent up with so much to say……so here we are. And the question is, “What does it mean to be you?”