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Author Archives: Meisaan Chan
God-usury
IIt is startlingly easy to forget you in the good timesand remember you in times of need;protect my heart from usurythis poison that seeps within and radiates out II“I remember you only when I need you,” I say, hanging my … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Food addiction, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, spirituality, writing
Tagged love, prayer
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The furious cleansing, or, When you cannot rage at them
Slam your anger upon me, says the Lord,rage, rage at mehowl and lash and attack and slash;empty yourself of toxicity © Meisaan Chan
Pacing yourself
There is always more to do– you know this –so why despair that there is more to do? © Meisaan Chan
When I am known and unknown
Sometimes I see what I am to become:New flesh, reborn –Sometimes all is dark, wrapped tight:The chrysalis tightly closed © Meisaan Chan
You can only give what you have
I wish to give you my beauty but have it not, O Lord,so you give me beauty that I may give it back to you I wish to give you my courage but have it not, O Lord,so you give … Continue reading
A spirituality conference – you’re invited!
Friends, Something else that Spirit is getting me into: Spiritual direction – what is it? It’s where I walk with you in the ups and downs of your life, helping you to glimpse, receive, and nurture Spirit within you, in … Continue reading
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The nature of jealousy’s holes
Have compassion on those who are jealous of you –your love that goes in will fall out of their holesbut better your compassion than your spitewhich will stick to you both © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, contemplation, haiku, meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual strengthening exercises, writing
Tagged compassion, enemy, friendship, jealousy, love
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Sometimes you have to start over, and agonizingly so
Sometimes you have to start over, and agonizingly so;just as the trees every year lose the crown of their gloryand the days lose their strength,just as the seed loses its protectionand the cougar loses its territoryand birds lose their flight … Continue reading
Posted in contemplation, Earth poetry, Feminine God, haiku, meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Rumi, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged cosmic loss, dark, darkness, help, help me, loss, starting over
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What gets overlooked – on rage
Rage is a sword with no handleso while you wield it and slice and killyour hands, to the bones, your hands – © Meisaan Chan
Posted in contemplation, haiku, meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged battle, enemy, rage, Relationships, vengeance
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The twisting path: When there is no precedent
O, how the path twists!Have confidence not in what has gone before;have confidence, instead, in me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in anxiety, contemplation, haiku, meditation, Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual strengthening exercises, writing
Tagged adventure, coronavirus, journey, trust, unknown, Unprecedented
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