Tag Archives: contemplation
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 and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged bath, bathtub, body, contemplation, embodied, embodiment, meditation
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Entertaining thoughts
You have no control over what thoughts knock on your door but it is only you who opens © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Addiction, Food addiction, Mediation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, meditation, self-control, wisdom
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In the face of a screaming to-do list
In the face of a screaming to-do list I’m sit, breathe, and pray for there is no way I am going to enter the storm without an anchor © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anchor, contemplation, dizziness, meditate, prayer, prey, surrender
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The foundation of compassion
The foundation of compassion lies in the ever-deepening awareness of God’s eternity © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged awareness, compassion, contemplation, eternity, infinity, meditation
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Seventy times seven times
Because he knew that forgiveness can flit away and needs to be anchored and re-anchored and re-anchored © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anchored, compassion, contemplation, forgiveness, grounding, healing, meditation
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Another reason to leave space in your soul
Joy expands to fit the size of its container © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged container, contemplation, joy, meditation, soul, space, spaciousness, transcendence
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