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Category Archives: recovery
Even goodness needs to be adapted to
Even goodness needs to be adapted to,when you are used to squalorwhen the patterns of refuse have set in so deepthat you are simply used to throwing yourself away;Even goodness needs to be adapted totake your timestay gentle © Meisaan … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged healing, infinity, love, self-care, self-love, spirituality
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How to safely peer into the chaos
Use my vision alone to peer into the chaos, says the Lord;use my sight alone to seefor love neither looks awaynor dissolves into despairbut knows there is always something greater;as it gazes, it knows the end © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged chaos, coronavirus, help, help me, submission
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Parable of the woman and the rut
There once was a woman who walked a dirt, circular path, and she walked it so many times that the path became a rut. After many months and years, she wanted to leave the rut, but each step she took … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, Parable, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged addiction, habit energy, healing, help, help me, Parable, tunnel vision, wisdom
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The things that determine everything
Where do you place your surrender?Where do you place your fear?To what do you give your power?That will determine everything © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged calming, comfort, coronavirus, discernment, fear, focus, love, power, surrender, trust
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The most profound prayer
The most profound prayerisn’t eloquentit is naked © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged help, help me, nakedness, prayer, prayer technique, spirituality, vulnerability
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When in hardship, remember your tools
Remember your tools, says the Lordhard-earned, well-keptBring them out again Dusty tools in back of shedstill work; shine them upand use © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged chaos, coronacalming, coronavirus, depression, hardship, spiritual journey, spiritual tools, tools
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Parable of the two women and the broken vase
The kingdom of God is like two women who each broke a precious vase. The first woman swept up the shards and threw them away. The second woman wept, then carefully glued the vase back together. It could no longer … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, Parable, recovery, Scripture riff, writing
Tagged brokenness, healing, help me, Parable, spirituality
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The not-really-wilderness
I’m in the wilderness, I say to the LordNot really, the Lord says to meHow is this not so, I ask. There is no path, no one else, no markers, no mapYou are walking upon my heart, the Lord says … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged coronavirus, guidance, help, help me, lost, map, reassurance, wilderness
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Maplessness
My heart is wild, says the Lord, so fear not the wildernessnor the pathless pathnor maplessness © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, help, help me, maplessness, wilderness
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Wisdom of the trees
Patiencehave patienceas trees know the liminal between the winter and the spring:Still naked, buds not yet revealed –a long way from thereyet a long way to go © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged endurance, help, help me, patience, spring, winter, wisdom
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Curving toward the center 