Tag Archives: body

Let your body pray, says the Lord

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

Let your body pray, says the Lord let your body talk to me I do not want prayers simply from your mouth © Meisaan Chan

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Break this death

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

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 | Leave a comment

Focus of the body, focus of the mind, focus of the spirit

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

The spirit is a delicate thing: Without sleep, focus of the spirit is the first to go © Meisaan Chan

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A bathtub prayer

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

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

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Love/hate gods

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

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

Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged alter, body, hate, help me, idle, loathing, love, self-love, temple | Leave a comment

When hunger is one of the most important holies

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

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 | Leave a comment

The God-calming

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

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 →