Category Archives: Spiritual poetry

please catch me

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

In my sliver of a moment a breath, a turning, a remembrance: You please catch me You © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged embrace, found, healing, help, help me, intention, intentionality, lost, remembrance | Leave a comment

God cannot resist the soul’s cry

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

It echoes across the universe and permeates the matter of God’s soul; like a mother, God opens and takes in like a father, God howls and defends © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged acceptance, crying out, help, help me, humility, power, protection | Leave a comment

A tip for the journey

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

It is tempting to rely on your hiking poles upon the arduous ascent but remember that your legs and glutes are stronger: that the most obvious is not always the most efficient © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged Camino, efficiency, help, hiking, journey, path, strength, wisdom | Leave a comment

The end of religion

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Blessed is the one who can hold religion lightly in the hands: its depths are but the gateway into mystery, and at its end the mystery continues and continues infinitely © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged eternity, infinity, mystery, mysticism, religion, search, searching, spirituality | Leave a comment

The call to resurrection

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Being who you are is a death to who they want you to be: But resurrection! Resurrection! © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged burden, help, independence, life, sacrifice, self-actualization, self-knowledge | Leave a comment

Beyond stereotypes

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Compassion is not about being nice; compassion is about self-control and using fire to cleanse, not to destroy © Meisaan Chan

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I never disappear, says the Lord

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged depths, eternity, food, infinity, looking, loss, nourishment, search, surface | Leave a comment

A prayer when in shards

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

O God of union heal my fragmented soul for eternity is but one everlasting yes and I, in shards, am far from it © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged eternity, fragments, healing, help, hope, infinity, injury, shards, trust | Leave a comment

All the ways you comfort me!

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

All the ways you comfort me! All the ways that words become hands and hands become sweet, soothing balm, all the ways word becomes flesh © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged balm, comfort, help, help me, love, tender, tenderness | Leave a comment