Category Archives: Poetry

If you have no car, no bike, no phone, no shoes, nothing that the world values

There are so many ways home, says the Lord; come home, dear ones, come home © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)  

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Before winter comes

Quickly, clouds race by, hurried to get somewhere else before winter comes © Meisaan Chan

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The spirit and the body

It is a spiritual practice to stop where the boundaries are; pushing beyond the boundary never moves the boundary it just means you pushed © Meisaan Chan

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Clearing out a space for God

Clearing out a space for God can be the most natural thing you’d want to do can be the most grueling task you can think of © Meisaan Chan

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October worship

Bright leaves gather in the wild grasses congregation of joy © Meisaan Chan

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Strength in the storm

When all is crisis turn first to me: bow and prostrate and pray – do this not for me, but for you, O fragile heart for you to remember your core © Meisaan Chan

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The plea

Sometimes life stretches out in one, great, unhurried expanse like the slow, rolling hills of Nebraska; sometimes it crumples together, dense and rugged and I constantly lose my footing; however the path unfolds before me, please keep me on the … Continue reading

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Because you’ve relinquished control

When you decide to enter the cove of God expect to be carried away © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Footprints, of a sort

…and in the strangest places, flowers grow a sign that the Lord has passed © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)  

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Above all

Do not think that I will not guide you keep walking listen obey © Meisaan Chan

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