Curving toward the center

Because sometimes the night is eternal

Posted on September 4, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Do not fight the dark
– it is what it is –
let your eyes adjust and stretch out your arms
for I do not need light to be seen

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“Ministry”

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

So many words talking about you,
almost none talking with you:
My heart was fooled, thinking this was prayer

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When you are empty

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Finite creatures always hit empty!
That is not doom, that is the path!
But where do you go to fill?
Your answer determines everything

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Keep it moving

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

This is your new life, says the Lord
so don’t wait for the old one to return;
I’m making improvements

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Put aside your plans

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Put aside your plans
for the Lord is on the move

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Setting the control (in scientific terms)

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Treating an enemy with compassion
highlights where the problem lies

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Receiving the baton

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

I take it and swallow hard,
knowing the lineage
but I am ready, and it was passed
so run, dear feet, run

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In training

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes you need to call out
and call out
and call out
not because God isn’t listening
but because it is an exercise in tenacity
the next needed skill

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The fear paradox

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

It is certain that fear is limitless, says the Lord
yet it finds its end in me

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The twisting path: When there is no precedent

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

O, how the path twists!
Have confidence not in what has gone before;
have confidence, instead, in me

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