Category Archives: recovery

The eating prayer

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Stopping at sated, the bite before full: Letting you, O Lord, fill to true completion © Meisaan Chan

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Those who have progressed, II

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Those who have progressed know just how much they need and trust how much God will give © Meisaan Chan

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Those who have progressed, I

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Those who have progressed choose not the path of independence but interdependence © Meisaan Chan

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The spirituality of openness

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Because the closed heart can only progress so far Meisaan Chan

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A gym of sorts

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Strength does not come instantly but after repeated tears of muscle fibers and then the sets of repetitions over many weeks and months: This is also true for the spirit for life is calling you to lift, not just once … Continue reading →

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Slowly, you challenge me to rise above

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Slowly, you challenge me to rise above slowly, my soul sloughs off the weight and indeed, I rise © Meisaan Chan

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Futures that never come

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Nighttime obsessing daytime preoccupation life force drains away © Meisaan Chan

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The unknowing space

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Bring me past my anxiety to the unknowing space and in the unknowing, unjudging and in the unjudging, openness, letting all things flow through until I am flown through and in this all-unknowing, flowing through, peace © Meisaan Chan

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A bathtub prayer

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

As I ease into the water, soak into me, relieve my tension-holding; let it ebb out so I can hear your voice so I can hear mine so I can breathe in silence, holding onto nothing © Meisaan Chan

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Entertaining thoughts

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

You have no control over what thoughts knock on your door but it is only you who opens © Meisaan Chan

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