The waiting door

Exploring your identity is to know what glowing stuff you’re made of,
and where it comes from, and why, and how:
the path always pushes deeper inward
until you come to the waiting door

© Meisaan Chan

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You can forget about me, says the Lord

You can forget about me, says the Lord
but then you will be forgetting your strongest strength

© Meisaan Chan

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The slow God

Sometimes you take your time
and so to be with you, I, too, need to slow down
and find contentment in matching footstep with footstep

© Meisaan Chan

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One of the greatest obstacles to deep healing

is impatience

 

© Meisaan Chan

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Ubiquitous teaching

If you only learn from wise humans
you are missing most of the lessons

© Meisaan Chan

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The acceptance

All my ways are death paths
all your ways are life paths

© Meisaan Chan

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Two types of strength

It takes a certain strength
to place your worries at the altar of the Lord
and it takes a different strength
to leave them there

© Meisaan Chan

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Do not neglect your wounds

Do not neglect your wounds:
they are your map for how to get home

© Meisaan Chan

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The eternal approach

I shall not lounge languidly in heaven
but shall continue where I left off, not one footstep removed,
infinitely approaching the infinite heart

© Meisaan Chan

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Waterfall, II

It might be afraid to fall off the edge
but its surrender is what makes it beautiful

© Meisaan Chan

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