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Category Archives: Spiritual poetry
Vulnerability distinctions
There is the vulnerability of weakness and the vulnerability of strength There is involuntary vulnerability and vulnerability fully chosen There is the vulnerability that fragments and the vulnerability that makes whole There is a vulnerability that withers and a vulnerability … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged courage, fear, fortress, fragmentation, healing, openness, vulnerability, wholeness
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Do not companion the chaos
It will get worse, says the Lord: Walk with me, do not companion the chaos © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged certainty, chaos, companion, courage, darkness, journey, light, trust
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You’re not done yet
Just when you think you’re done just when you want to celebrate the path long trod you notice that the path now obscured and faint, curves around a bend: You’re not done yet © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged courage, difficulties, help, help me, journey, path, resilience, strength
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Glowing with sun
After three days of rain the grasses glow with sun and astonished, we look up © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged astonishment, contemplation, joy, meditation, Michigan, rain, spirituality, sun, surprise, union
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A cry for help in the wilderness
Help me, O Lord, barricades in every direction; the path has crumbled behind me the path has crumbled before me and to my sides the land burns: Help me, oh God, I cry © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, desolation, help, help me, journey, lost, pain, path, wandering
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When in hardship
When in hardship, so often you want to become even harder than the hardship when the path is asking you to break open © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anger, anger management, compassion, hardship, rage, suffering, surrender
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The anchor
In your deepest prayer, there am I! In your weakest prayer, there am I! In no prayer, there am I! Do not anchor to the prayer, but to me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anchor, contemplation, help, help me, meditation, prayer, wandering
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Middle of wilderness
The journey takes us to heaven where ten thousand lakes lie where pines stand tall and birch trees lean gently where rain soaks in deep where everything is at a soul-level: The ducks swimming, the squirrels darting, the air suspended … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged divination, earth spirituality, journey, rest, soul, suspended, union, wilderness
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The slow return to strength
Putting down the fury and the self-righteousness and the vengeance and the victimhood, putting the cool compress of compassion to my forehead, that I do not grow yet weaker © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anger, compassion, fury, meditation, rage, strength, vengeance, victim
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Curving toward the center 