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Tag Archives: body
Let your body pray, says the Lord
Let your body pray, says the Lord let your body talk to me I do not want prayers simply from your mouth © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged body, body prayer, embodiment, prayer, spirituality
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Break this death
My body fears me and I fear my body: Break this death, O Lord © Meissan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged body, brokenness, death, humility, illness, life, self-hatred
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Focus of the body, focus of the mind, focus of the spirit
The spirit is a delicate thing: Without sleep, focus of the spirit is the first to go © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged body, fusion, integration, life balance, self-care, spirit
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A bathtub prayer
As I ease into the water, soak into me, relieve my tension-holding; let it ebb out so I can hear your voice so I can hear mine so I can breathe in silence, holding onto nothing © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged bath, bathtub, body, contemplation, embodied, embodiment, meditation
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Love/hate gods
I The body is God’s temple yet how often it is hated II The body is God’s temple – but note: It is not God – yet how often it is worshiped © Meisaan Chan
When hunger is one of the most important holies
You know you are starving and you know that God is food and is precisely in that next feared step: Take it! Follow the food! You are skin and bones! © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged addiction, body, food, path, self-hatred, self-love, starvation, starving
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The God-calming
Safe, safe, you call to me and gentle I appear; in the darkness you allow me warmth of bed and I stroke you, breath breathing slowly now, lengthening body, calming down yes, yes, I am for you yes © Meisaan … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged body, breath, calming, intimacy, safe, safety, sensuality, shelter, stroking, tenderness
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Direct connection
You cannot acknowledge the mind-body-spirit connection and not acknowledge the importance of sleep © Meisaan Chan
Posted in recovery, writing
Tagged body, connection, meditation, mind, rest, sleep, spirit
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