Category Archives: Poetry

Gather your nets

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Gather your nets to catch the Lord – but I assure you, they can never be big enough © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Getting beyond the self

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Spend a week contemplating infinity; return to this when God seems small © Meisaan Chan

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I know you’re scared, so come to me

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I know you’re scared, so come to me take off your armor, disrobe into vulnerability; feel my protection, celestial and free I know you’re scared, so come to me © Meisaan Chan

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If I place my hope in the world

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

If I place my hope in the world, my hope is origami paper in the rain; If I place my hope in you, my hope is an eternal pathway to an eternal source O God, O God, O God © … Continue reading →

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On problems

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Problems rarely just go away; they go away most completely when they are healed © Meisaan Chan

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Before the fury of the day: The five-minute prayer

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I have five minutes to love you as I wish and the rest of the day to love you as you wish © Meisaan Chan

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The exquisite hand

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

With just a turn of the head, the web turns invisible, a reminder that we are surrounded by an exquisite hand though perhaps we do not see © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Tenacity’s nature

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Tenacity deepens not with hardship but with rounds of hardship © Meisaan Chan

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The bypassing

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I grow fat with love sometimes the times are lean: free me from all this and connect me to that umbilical cord which bypasses famine, drought, delight © Meisaan Chan

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A prayer to stop wandering in ruts

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

O Camino God, my journeyer: help me remember the pathway out of my ruts so I do not wander in ruts but journey home to you © Meisaan Chan

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