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Category Archives: Scripture riff
God-usury
IIt is startlingly easy to forget you in the good timesand remember you in times of need;protect my heart from usurythis poison that seeps within and radiates out II“I remember you only when I need you,” I say, hanging my … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Food addiction, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, spirituality, writing
Tagged love, prayer
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The furious cleansing, or, When you cannot rage at them
Slam your anger upon me, says the Lord,rage, rage at mehowl and lash and attack and slash;empty yourself of toxicity © Meisaan Chan
The nature of jealousy’s holes
Have compassion on those who are jealous of you –your love that goes in will fall out of their holesbut better your compassion than your spitewhich will stick to you both © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, contemplation, haiku, meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual strengthening exercises, writing
Tagged compassion, enemy, friendship, jealousy, love
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Sometimes you have to start over, and agonizingly so
Sometimes you have to start over, and agonizingly so;just as the trees every year lose the crown of their gloryand the days lose their strength,just as the seed loses its protectionand the cougar loses its territoryand birds lose their flight … Continue reading
Posted in contemplation, Earth poetry, Feminine God, haiku, meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Rumi, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged cosmic loss, dark, darkness, help, help me, loss, starting over
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What gets overlooked – on rage
Rage is a sword with no handleso while you wield it and slice and killyour hands, to the bones, your hands – © Meisaan Chan
Posted in contemplation, haiku, meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged battle, enemy, rage, Relationships, vengeance
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The twisting path: When there is no precedent
O, how the path twists!Have confidence not in what has gone before;have confidence, instead, in me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in anxiety, contemplation, haiku, meditation, Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual strengthening exercises, writing
Tagged adventure, coronavirus, journey, trust, unknown, Unprecedented
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Vision
When I am pushed to the maxhelp me handle myself carefully, tenderly, delicately:Help me discern who also willand who won’t © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Food addiction, haiku, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, Spiritual strengthening exercises, writing
Tagged discernment, friendship, hardship, help, help me, vision
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The presence of ego
Ego returns to its seat in the clarityEgo takes the stage in the disturbance © Meisaan Chan
Posted in contemplation, meditation, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, spirituality, writing
Tagged ego, humility, pride, surrender
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True healing and false healing
True healing necessitates digging out infectionpain and work False healing claimsthat doing nothing will heal © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Food addiction, haiku, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged healing, infection, salve
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Discomforting change: The price of openness
Openness is not always comfortableor the outcome of the status quo;if you want to be open, analyze the pricehonestly discern your willingness © Meisaan Chan
