Curving toward the center

I crawl to the horizon looking for my God

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

I crawl to the horizon looking for my God
unknowing that God is the horizon
God is the sky
God is my knees

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Shape-shifting soul

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Some people compress it
Some let it expand;
Some people accept it just as it is
Some only after distorting every possible bit

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The moment God touches the soul

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

You surge into me, God – ah!
All is well! All is well!

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Stumbling around in the dark

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

The benefit to blindness
is that all other senses are finally awake

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Uncertainty is God’s open door

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Uncertainty is God’s open door
certainty tends to close it

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Inner stillness

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Noise is swirling everywhere
except within: stillness

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Naked protection

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

I.
Naked to me
is not naked to them
for I enshroud you, says the Lord

II.
If armor to them
becomes armor to me
you are not protected

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When in hardship

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

“My life! I can’t believe my life!” I exclaim.
“I keep trying to give you the gift of strength,” says the Lord,
“but you keep rejecting it.”

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Inner tumult

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

No matter my externals,
when I tumult inside
I am poor

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You are not able to see it all

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

You are not able to see it all, says the Lord –
when you keep this unknowing before you
you keep humility before you

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