Tag Archives: food

Counterfeit food

It promises to fill you,but my love, you are eating stones © Meisaan Chan

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Be satisfied

Be satisfied, says the Lord: You have placed your hunger in the heart of me feast, now, on my heart © Meisaan Chan

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Needing you

The door appears: Starving, I step through meeting you © Meisaan Chan  

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The eating prayer

Stopping at sated, the bite before full: Letting you, O Lord, fill to true completion © Meisaan Chan

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Trust

Hands cupped and open; may my question be not if the food will come but when © Meisaan Chan

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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

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Homecoming

Welcome home, dear one! How long I’ve waited to hear your footsteps across the threshold; come, let me give you rest let me give you solace let me give you nourishment, for the journey is far from over, even when … Continue reading

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That feeling that something is missing

If something is missing, come first to me, God says and I will fill every hole; or you can come last to me and I will still fill every hole, but there will be many more of them © Meisaan … Continue reading

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I never disappear, says the Lord

I never disappear, says the Lord so if you don’t find me on the surface find me in the depths © Meisaan Chan

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The undiscerning moment

Without food or touch the spirit falls to sleep, hibernating until more favorable conditions appear – if these don’t come, the spirit can sleep forever but the slightest scent arouses voracious hunger; this is the most precarious time, for it … Continue reading

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