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Category Archives: recovery
The neutrality of desire
Desire can lead you away from me or it can plunge you into my heart © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged desire, food, heart, hunger, source, starving, sustenance
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Forged
Comfort never brings with it tenacity courage resilience strength: Only hardship can do this © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged courage, hardship, resilience, strength, suffering, tenacity, wisdom
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Make your home in me
I am the rock that weathers all storms, says the Lord; make your home in me © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged earth, guidance, help, home, homelessness, rock, security, shelter, stone
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Says the God of transformation
Do not keep your weakness to yourself do not keep your shame to yourself do not keep your anger to yourself as such, it can never be transformed © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged anger, healing, shame, transformation, weakness
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Nocturne
Crickets lulling me to sleep A congregation of stars above my ceiling My hair, damp, twisted with moonlight: Love surrounds and surrounds and surrounds and when I least expect, penetrates © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged earth, eternity, heavens, infinity, intimacy, love, penetration, stars, union
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Go out to the edge of the lake
Go, row out to the edge of the lake go out with your little light and behold the light you cannot make not one, nor a million’s million © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, recovery
Tagged beauty, contemplation, darkness, hope, light, meditation, silence, tranquility
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Paralyzing fear is actually a spiritual hunger
and is best remedied by spiritual food © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged anxiety, comfort, fear, food, hunger, resilience, strength
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Sometimes life doesn’t unfold according to plan
Sometimes life doesn’t unfold according to plan as if it were one big origami crane slowly unwrapping, wanting to fly away from itself; in times like these, protect me from self-loathing, where I could so easily crumple it all up … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged disappointment, failure, healing, hope, love, origami, persistence, resilience, suffering, tenderness
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Taking up so much space
Self-pity blunts blessing desensitizes the spirit covers over the sun © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged awareness, blessing, grief, growth, healing, self-pity
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Curving toward the center 