Category Archives: Poetry

Coronavirus loneliness and spiritual response

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

When you despair in loneliness, go deeperfor there is never loneliness in union © Meisaan Chan

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What you channel

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

You can channel peace and strengthYou can channel fearBoth are within you © Meisaan Chan

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Changing your eyes

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

The choice to be gratefulis the choice to change your eyes © Meisaan Chan

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Brokenness and wholeness

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Brokenness is the same as wholeness flipped over:Beginners love wholenessAdvanced love also brokennessloving the whole © Meisaan Chan

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Strange coronavirus gratitude

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

What a strange time to be alive.We are a snow globe, shaken hard:In the blizzard but anchoredand eventually the snow will settle –that is why the tiny world is glued down,meant to withstand hard shaking © Meisaan Chan

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Overflowing help in the wasteland

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Over and over I confronted the wastelandand over and over I screamed to you for help –not once did you fail or even delay,deluge of rescue, salvation, and supportpoured into my lappoured until I could no longer holdpoured until flowing … Continue reading →

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The scream for existential help is the scream for transcendence

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

The more I screamed to Godthe more God rescued;the more I lostthe more God revealed its face It is not easy to scream for existential helpbut it is the scream for transcendencethat God makes a path where there is none … Continue reading →

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A brief renunciation of idols

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

If God gives – alleluia!If God takes away – alleluia!Only God is God – alleluia! © Meisaan Chan

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Of course all things are possible

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Of course the impossible is possible! says the Lordfor it was you who gave it that label, not I © Meisaan Chan

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November

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

I have forgotten how red the earth gets in autumn I have forgotten the beauty of impending death I have forgotten the graciousness of the lesson © Meisaan Chan

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