So strange when others find me valuable!
Different mirrors, I argue
Same reflection, they respond
© Meisaan Chan
So strange when others find me valuable!
Posted in Addiction, anxiety, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged affirmation, holiness, reflection, self-worth, Valuable
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You don’t have to keep anything
You don’t have to keep anything:
Closed fists to open hands
© Meisaan Chan
Posted in anxiety, meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, fear, generosity, meditation, openness, trust
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Rooting it out
Somewhere along the vine is death,
and I will root it out, says the Lord
only if you let me
© Meisaan Chan
Posted in Addiction, anxiety, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged death, health, humility, persistence, surrender, trust
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Loving paradox
God always pushes
but never pushes:
This, too, is fact
© Meisaan Chan
Posted in Addiction, anxiety, Food addiction, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged challenge, contemplation, gentle, journey, meditation, push, relent
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I crawl to the horizon looking for my God
I crawl to the horizon looking for my God
unknowing that God is the horizon
God is the sky
God is my knees
© Meisaan Chan
Posted in Earth poetry, Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged God, Horizon, infinity, knees, permeating, sky, union
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Shape-shifting soul
Some people compress it
Some let it expand;
Some people accept it just as it is
Some only after distorting every possible bit
© Meisaan Chan
Posted in Addiction, anxiety, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged acceptance, compression, distortion, expanse, love, self-hatred, self-love, soul, surrender
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The moment God touches the soul
You surge into me, God – ah!
All is well! All is well!
© Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged body-holiness, ecstasy, presence, union, unity
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