God, make me fearless for you

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

God, make me fearless for you:
be my breath
and my strength
and my courage
and my ferocity
and my every atom
so that even if my blood is shed
fearless: my blood is shed

© Meisaan Chan

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If you want to know yourself

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

If you want to know yourself, seek the crowd!
and define who you are and who you are not

If you want to know yourself, seek the desert!
and find who you are when you are beyond repair

© Meisaan Chan

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Direct connection

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

You cannot acknowledge the mind-body-spirit connection
and not acknowledge the importance of sleep

© Meisaan Chan

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God is love

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Humans have the wondrous tendency to make
the simplest things impossible

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The apology

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

“I’m sorry,” says the soul, laying itself open to examination
to the beauty, the wounds, the pus

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Depth of God

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Depth of God
always spilling over

You will know you’re holding it
when you cannot, and feel the spilling

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Because they can spot it from a mile away

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

The people you want to impress might not even be looking!
Fear not being invisible
fear being inauthentic

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Burdens: A perspective

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

From the perspective of the ant, the mountain is eternal
From the perspective of the cosmos, the mountain is less than an atom of an ant

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Approaching as close as we allow

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Hijabbed woman next to me, reading morning prayer
silent teen across from me, eyes closed
hunched man engrossed by his indefatigable phone:
All the ways we enter our days
all the ways you enter them with us
approaching as close as we allow

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The ever-approaching path that spirals to the center

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

The remembering, the forgetting, the remembering,
the forgetting, the remembering, the forgetting
the remembering, the forgetting,
the remembering

© Meisaan Chan

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