Category Archives: recovery

In the field

Get out of the office of your life and into the muck of the field forget about how you appear be abandon © Meisaan Chan

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Sanctuaries within sanctuaries

The tiny church nestled in mountains and drenched in falling light sanctuaries within sanctuaries © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)  

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The promise

There is always more compassion, says the Lord: When the well dries up dig deeper © Meisaan Chan

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How you love solidity!

How you love solidity! But I am found in the falling! © Meisaan Chan

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The edge of unknowing

At the edge you don’t know how far you have to fall and you don’t know what will happen, or when; the only thing you know is what will happen if you don’t © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic) … Continue reading

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The power of receiving

God receives all screaming God receives all anguish God receives all confusion There is nothing she cannot receive © Meisaan Chan

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You are not Kuan Yin of a thousand hands

Before you pick up the next thing please put down something you’re holding: keep the balance © Meisaan Chan

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A note to the observer

Humans bring beauty and mess with them wherever they go so if you happen to see a human, expect it: beauty and mess beauty and mess © Meisaan Chan

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Switchbacks

When there is a mountain to climb do not expect the straight road © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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God, make me fearless for you

God, make me fearless for you: be my breath and my strength and my courage and my ferocity and my every atom so that even if my blood is shed fearless: my blood is shed © Meisaan Chan

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