Tag Archives: forgiveness

The wound

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Learning to trust again filling eternal hole with eternal sustenance human desire, divine task © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged forgiveness, healing, help, humility, injury, trust, wholeness, wound | Leave a comment

The power of humility’s absence

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Forgiving while still carrying self-righteous indignation is not forgiveness and nor will you heal © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Addiction, Food addiction, Mediation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged forgiveness, healing, humility, indignation, openness, rage, woundedness | Leave a comment

Seventy times seven times

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

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 | Leave a comment

Litmus test

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

A more tender heart toward your enemies? You are on the right path © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged compassion, enemies, forbearance, forgiveness, growth, heart, humility, journey, path, patience, power, tender | Leave a comment

The apology

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

“I’m sorry,” says the soul, laying itself open to examination to the beauty, the wounds, the pus © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged apology, forgiveness, honestly, nakedness, vulnerable | Leave a comment

In the presence of human love

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Relief: You will not try to turn me into a version of yourself! I put down my sword and my own heart opens © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged acceptance, forgiveness, gentleness, imperfection, love | Leave a comment

The return

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Coming back to me requires no distance to cross only the turning © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Addiction, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry | Tagged decision, forgiveness, home, homecoming, liberty, mercy, presence, return | Leave a comment