Tag Archives: food

Counterfeit food

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

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

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Be satisfied

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

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

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

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

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The eating prayer

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

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

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Trust

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

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

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

Homecoming

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

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

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

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

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged depths, eternity, food, infinity, looking, loss, nourishment, search, surface | Leave a comment

The undiscerning moment

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

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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