Category Archives: Poetry

Full of grace

No one can fill with grace except God so when you see someone full, know that God has passed © Meisaan Chan  

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I am for you

I am for you – if the world is against you, what is that? It is a speck of dust in the cosmos; oh, that you could see © Meisaan Chan

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The deeper the spiritual gift

The deeper the spiritual gift the more it is disguised © Meisaan Chan

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Obedience to love

Obedience to love: Turmoil slackens, stills – turmoil is not the master © Meisaan Chan

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Vulnerability distinctions

There is the vulnerability of weakness and the vulnerability of strength There is involuntary vulnerability and vulnerability fully chosen There is the vulnerability that fragments and the vulnerability that makes whole There is a vulnerability that withers and a vulnerability … Continue reading

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Do not companion the chaos

It will get worse, says the Lord: Walk with me, do not companion the chaos © Meisaan Chan

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You’re not done yet

Just when you think you’re done just when you want to celebrate the path long trod you notice that the path now obscured and faint, curves around a bend: You’re not done yet © Meisaan Chan

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Glowing with sun

After three days of rain the grasses glow with sun and astonished, we look up © Meisaan Chan

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A cry for help in the wilderness

Help me, O Lord, barricades in every direction; the path has crumbled behind me the path has crumbled before me and to my sides the land burns: Help me, oh God, I cry © Meisaan Chan

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When in hardship

When in hardship, so often you want to become even harder than the hardship when the path is asking you to break open © Meisaan Chan

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