Category Archives: Scripture riff

Mutuality

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

You rescued, just as you promisedfor I called out your name, just as I promised © Meisaan Chan

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What is harder than taking it up

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

I asked you to take it up and you did, says the Lord;now I am asking you something even harder:I am asking you to put it down © Meisaan Chan

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Spiritual enhancements and dilutions

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

Focus is one of the greatest spiritual enhancementsDistraction is one of the strongest spiritual dilutions © Meisaan Chan

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God-usury

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

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 →

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The furious cleansing, or, When you cannot rage at them

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

Slam your anger upon me, says the Lord,rage, rage at mehowl and lash and attack and slash;empty yourself of toxicity © Meisaan Chan

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The nature of jealousy’s holes

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

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

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Sometimes you have to start over, and agonizingly so

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Meisaan Chan

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 →