Category Archives: recovery

You are so beautiful

You are so beautiful, my love, says the Lord and the ways you struggle to love me make me love you more a miracle – that Infinity can love you more! – That is what you do to me © … Continue reading

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Saturated with God

I enter this world empty-handed and empty-handed I leave it saturated with God © Meisaan Chan

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What is my life for?

What is my life for? It is not for riches It is not for power It is not for prestige It is not to go to the grave being right; It is to go to the grave praising © Meisaan … Continue reading

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I am yet larger

I am yet larger: Remember this © Meisaan Chan

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Says the Potter

Authenticity is what I want, says the Lord; transformation comes when I work with clay not its image © Meisaan Chan

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Non-self

I am not my race. I am not my income. I am not my education. I am not my culture. I am not my body. I am not my identity. © Meisaan Chan

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Break this death

My body fears me and I fear my body: Break this death, O Lord © Meissan Chan

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Unstable ground

Seek blessing from anything other than the Lord and find yourself on unstable ground © Meisaan Chan

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Pare away

Pare, pare away, says the Lord you must pare to reach the fruit and even more to reach the seed © Meisaan Chan

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When someone is upset at you

When someone is upset at you, receive their distress: Right and wrong intertwine, so let go of them! Focus instead on closer and further apart © Meisaan Chan

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