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Category Archives: recovery
Self-identification
If your heart is a closed door all around you, you will behold closed doors; If your heart is a wide, open field all around you, you will behold the space © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged door, eternity, fear, generosity, heart, identification, infinity, mirror, space
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Safety
Even in the tempest, you are safe; open and see what true safety is © Meisaan Chan
Injury’s tell-tale sign
If you cannot be compassionate look for the wound © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged compassion, healing, humility, injury, wound
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Heart stuck
Rusted moments immovable fear O Lord, unseize my heart © Meisaan Chan
The load
“You can put down your load,” God says. “I can’t,” I say. “This is not how you were meant to live,” God says. “I can’t,” I say. “You can’t or you won’t?” God asks. “I no longer know how,” I … Continue reading
Pit stops
All the stops on the pathway home! All the ways to forget where we’re going! © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, detour, direction, discernment, journey, lost, map, path
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The insomnia prayer
God of counted minutes circle me back home to you © Meisaan Chan
A fly on the wall
“They despair that they have not earned my love,” weeps the Lord: “Have they not been listening?” © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged acceptance, eternity, gift, infinity, love, unconditional
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The faith of wound care
Since wounds heal from the inside-out, do not be discouraged if you cannot see the progress; keep cleansing keep vigilant keep watch © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged care, compassion, healing, help, help me, injury, self-care, vigil, wound
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Compassion’s necessary two-way street
Healthy compassion must go both ways, outward and inward: if only outward, you annhiliate the self if only inward, you harden © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged balance, care, compassion, generosity, help me, self-care, self-compassion
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Curving toward the center 