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Category Archives: Poetry
Motivation
They emerge: worms in the rain gasping for air breaking through barriers only when suffocating nevertheless: still breaking through © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged anxiety, courage, hardship, pain, resilience, strength, struggle, worms
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Deep in the labyrinth
Doors follow me. I don’t know why, but that’s how you reveal yourself, in the perpetual choice: to go or to stay posed again and again and again, each door leading to others in a tangle of doors and the … Continue reading
You spend a lot of energy trying to leave, God says
“You spend a lot of energy trying to leave,” God says. “As much as I want to, I can’t say,” I say. “It’s not right. But neither is leaving.” “Such a conflicted heart!” God says gently. “What’s the way out?” … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged discernment, fear, isolation, leaving, religion, union
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The waiting door
Exploring your identity is to know what glowing stuff you’re made of, and where it comes from, and why, and how: the path always pushes deeper inward until you come to the waiting door © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged adventure, darkness, door, identity, journey, path, question
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You can forget about me, says the Lord
You can forget about me, says the Lord but then you will be forgetting your strongest strength © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged forgetting, glory, remembrance, source, strength
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The slow God
Sometimes you take your time and so to be with you, I, too, need to slow down and find contentment in matching footstep with footstep © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged adventure, companion, journey, path, slow, slowness
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One of the greatest obstacles to deep healing
is impatience © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged endurance, healing, impatience, patience, resilience, strength
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Ubiquitous teaching
If you only learn from wise humans you are missing most of the lessons © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged hardship, lesson, suffering, wisdom
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The acceptance
All my ways are death paths all your ways are life paths © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged acceptance, death, denial, intimacy, life, refusal, surrender, trust
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Two types of strength
It takes a certain strength to place your worries at the altar of the Lord and it takes a different strength to leave them there © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged anxiety, courage, fear, strength, submission, surrender, trust, worry
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Curving toward the center 