Category Archives: recovery

Equations

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

  You keep trying to use equations to understand my love, says the Lord: you think you can add to it or multiply or subtract or divide yet so rarely to do you consider that lovely word, infinity, which has … Continue reading →

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If they take it all away

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

If they take it all away and all my kingdoms fall I’ll have nothing left to look at but you If they take it all away and I run to you you will show me that they didn’t © Meisaan Chan

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The companion

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

You fall down and I pick you up, you thirst and I pour water in your cup; yes, it is your path and toil but the path is not to be traversed alone and so I journey with you © … Continue reading →

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Holy messes

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Frozen ground thawing making messes everywhere thick transformation © Meisaan Chan    

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Go ahead. Abandon.

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

  Go ahead. Abandon. Do not worry about losing yourself in me for all the lost shall be found and all the found shall be deeply claimed. Go ahead. Abandon.     © Meisaan Chan

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Carrying the burdens

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

When you learn how to better carry your burdens: you can then look up and see the beauty © Meisaan Chan   (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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The waves crash over my head

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

  The waves crash over my head and your lights are so distant, so small: be bigger than this, O God, my rescue for your name is my last breath     © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Endless are my fears

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

  Endless are my fears but purify my love, for endless has an end     © Meisaan Chan

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Arms wrapped around you

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

  There is hardly a more beautiful gift than when you can be your messy self, and when you don’t need to wrap your arms around yourself because there are arms already wrapped around you     © Meisaan Chan

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Sometimes there is no easy out

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes there is no easy out but still, there is an out © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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