-
RSS reader – Here you go
Tags
- acceptance
- addiction
- adventure
- anger
- anxiety
- beauty
- blindness
- burden
- comfort
- compassion
- contemplation
- coronavirus
- courage
- darkness
- death
- depression
- discernment
- ego
- emptiness
- eternity
- faith
- fear
- focus
- freedom
- God speaks poetry
- growth
- haiku
- hardship
- healing
- heart
- help
- help me
- hope
- humility
- independence
- infinity
- intimacy
- journey
- joy
- life
- light
- listening
- loss
- lost
- love
- meditation
- mindfulness
- obedience
- pain
- path
- peace
- praise
- prayer
- presence
- rescue
- resilience
- rest
- silence
- spirit
- spirituality
- Spiritual poetry
- strength
- struggle
- submission
- surrender
- transformation
- trust
- union
- unity
- unknown
- vision
- vulnerability
- weakness
- wisdom
- writing
Top Posts & Pages
Category Archives: recovery
Stepping out of the wound
I surpass all woundedness, says the Lord so step out of your woundedness and into my surpassing © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged healing, surrender, trust, wound, woundedness
Leave a comment
Lighting small candle
Lighting small candle waiting for the moon to see water laps softly © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged children, darkness, light, moon, patience, waiting
Leave a comment
Incident – or – First Responders
You cannot help if Anger is the first to respond but if left unchecked, it can refuse access to others who are trying to assist: Compassion Wisdom Strength and Resilience: it will easily take over, but without the requisite skills … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged anger, compassion, resilience, responder, self-control, wisdom
Leave a comment
A caution about the altar of independence
This altar might seem like it doesn’t need sacrifices – that it doesn’t need anything, really – but there is something brittle about it, something cold © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged altar, independence, interdependence, love, openness, trust
Leave a comment
Prayer of release
I do not need more control you have given me enough, and for that which I cannot control another prayer rises as I let go of what does not belong to me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged bondage, control, freedom, prayer, prison, release, relinquishment, trust
Leave a comment
The power of humility’s absence
Forgiving while still carrying self-righteous indignation is not forgiveness and nor will you heal © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged anger, forgiveness, healing, hurt, indignation, wound
Leave a comment
Entertaining thoughts
You have no control over what thoughts knock on your door but it is only you who opens © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged contemplation, discipline, meditation, self-control, thoughts
Leave a comment
Giving
Give me joy and I will nurture it to deeper joy; give me suffering and I will turn it to new life; give me all who you are, even shame, that heaviest burden; and when you have nothing left to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged burden, eternity, freedom, gift, joy, nothing, nothingness, relinquishment, shame, vessel
Leave a comment
Missing the mark
How I yearn to have control but having control is not the point © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged control, relinquishment, surrender
Leave a comment
If you want to change the world
If you want to change the world heal your deepest wounds for healing radiates only from the inside-out © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged activism, earth, healing, social justice, world
Leave a comment
Curving toward the center 