Curving toward the center

Litmus test II

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

True healing
leads to compassion;
be on watch for imitators

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Litmus test I

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Lack of compassion
is a sign of a wound

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Impenetrable

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Their fangs may come out
but arm yourself with compassion
which is eternally bigger

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Alleluia for busy days

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Alleluia for busy days
for ways in which I contribute to beauty

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Open wounds

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

For most if not all of your life,
you will have open wounds
so it is of utmost importance
that you learn how to tend

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Your dreams can be the most confusing of all

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Your dreams can be the most confusing of all! –
So rely not on your dreams
rely on mine

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Even if I am filled with disease, will you please still touch me?

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Please, Lord: Even if I am filled with disease,
will you please still touch me?

I will touch you until you are healed
disease cannot repel me
I have frenzied love for you

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Icons

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes you need images to get you through
and sometimes the images fall apart, leaving you in blackness
and sometimes the blackness gets you through

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Silence, says the soul –

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Silence, says the soul:
stop the noise
stop the stopping
until all is stopped

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Be that anchor

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Lord, help me face the storm and not be swept away
be that anchor you promised you would be

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