RSS reader – Here you go
Top Posts & Pages
- I have a right to be heard, shouts the soul
- To think that I can be me, just as I am
- Why God rescues and cares
- Comforting spiritual blindness
- Walk through pain
- A cardinal's call stabs at the air
- Litmus test, yet again
- What weakens the bond?
- God and the institution
- After the dolphins, during the sunpour
Tags
- acceptance
- addiction
- adventure
- anger
- anxiety
- beauty
- blindness
- burden
- chaos
- comfort
- compassion
- contemplation
- coronavirus
- courage
- darkness
- death
- depression
- discernment
- ego
- emptiness
- eternity
- faith
- fear
- focus
- freedom
- growth
- haiku
- hardship
- healing
- heart
- help
- help me
- hope
- humility
- independence
- infinity
- intimacy
- journey
- joy
- life
- light
- listening
- loss
- lost
- love
- meditation
- mindfulness
- obedience
- pain
- path
- peace
- praise
- prayer
- presence
- rescue
- resilience
- rest
- silence
- spirit
- spirituality
- Spiritual poetry
- strength
- struggle
- submission
- surrender
- transformation
- trust
- union
- unity
- unknown
- vision
- vulnerability
- weakness
- wisdom
- writing
Tag Archives: earth
The fallow years, I
Even dirt gets exhausted when used,even dirt needs replenishment, which the earth brings:Nitrogen, through lightningdeathfallow yearstime © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged death, earth, fallow, fallow years, life, tiredness, transformation
Leave a comment
Desirous of touch
Rain clouds, low, so close to the earth desirous of touch so I go out © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged earth, intimacy, rain, spirit, union, weather
Leave a comment
The holiness of holes
Healthy soil has holes –that’s how the air and rain and seeds sink in;solid soil holds little life © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged earth, healthy, help, help me, holiness, perfectionism, unhealthy, weary
Leave a comment
Darkness of Michigan
Rain slashes, taps, drenches released from the sky O dark darkness of Michigan © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged earth, earth spirituality, Michigan, peace, rain, union, wilderness
Leave a comment
Ghosts in a choir
Back porch deck light, falling rain: I gaze across the lake, at the birch trees standing like ghosts in a choir watching me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, earth, meditation, nature, peace, union, wilderness
Leave a comment
Do not discard dreams that die
Do not discard dreams that die return them to earth for they keep the soil fertile for new seeds © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged disappointment, dreams, earth, grief, life, resurrection, seeds, sorrow
Leave a comment
Soft, tender rain
Soft, tender rain stroking the earth unafraid caress © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged earth, intimacy, rain, tenderness, union
Leave a comment
“Grisly weather”
he said to her, climbing down the train stairs, shocking me – why would he insult the rain so? A soft mist soaking into the earth: yes Cautious light, internal luminescence: yes Shy, female touch: yes – his footsteps sounded … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, writing
Tagged awareness, contemplation, delicacy, earth, meditation, rain, receptivity, vision
Leave a comment
Increments
The sun does not flounce into the sky with one brilliant leap but slowly crawls up the canvas in its own shifting light – even the most important thing to the earth comes in increments! – so, too, with discipline, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, discipline, earth, hardship, increment, journey, resilience, strength, sun, tenacity, wisdom
Leave a comment
Footprints, of a sort
…and in the strangest places, flowers grow a sign that the Lord has passed © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged beauty, earth, flowers, footprints, healing, presence, signs, tree
Leave a comment
Curving toward the center 