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Tag Archives: hardship
Your trail
Your trail is marked by blood and joy.Your trail is marked by blood and joy. © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged blood, hardship, help, help me, joy, multiplicity, unity
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Be not afraid of brokenness
Be not afraid of brokennessas a duckling emerges from the shell knows:Brokenness means lifeBrokenness means growthBrokenness means hopeBrokenness means beginnings 6/16/2020
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Earth poetry, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged brokenness, hardship, help, help me, starting over, struggle
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When in hardship, remember your tools
Remember your tools, says the Lordhard-earned, well-keptBring them out again Dusty tools in back of shedstill work; shine them upand use © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Feminine God, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged chaos, coronacalming, coronavirus, depression, hardship, spiritual journey, spiritual tools, tools
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Not all the eggs hatched: Duck Spirituality
INot all the eggs hatched.There were two left in the nest.Eggshell fragments were cracked open everywhere on the groundexcept for the two.All the ducks were gone and these two eggs, cold –so much love and effort and no hatching!Not everything … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Earth poetry, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged acceptance, coronavirus, duck, ducklings, eggs, hardship, loss, survival, wisdom
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Hardship means
God doesn’t necessarily take hardship away,but turns it into a means, not the end © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged courage, eternity, hardship, help, help me, infinity, stamina, suffering, vision
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From start to finish, love
From start to finish, love.If there is a speck of loveengage that speck, encourage it to grow;if it does not, then gently lay it down –do not anger, do not shame it, do not press it on,handle it with tender … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, PTSD, Rumi-esque, Scripture riff, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged comfort, compassion, hardship, help, help me, love
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The gift of raw materials
My job is to give you the raw materialsbut it is up to you to decide what to do with them © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Poetry, PTSD, Spiritual poetry
Tagged free will, hardship, help, help me, raw materials
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The gift of raw materials
I give you the raw materials, says the Lord but it is up to you to decide what to do with them © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged building, courage, faith, hardship, help, help me, raw materials, surrender, trust
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When all the choices are hard ones
When all the choices are hard ones you must decide which parts of you will die: Remember that some parts will more readily come back to life than others © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged choices, death, decisions, discernment, hardship, help, help me, life, resurrection, surrender
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When in hardship
When in hardship, so often you want to become even harder than the hardship when the path is asking you to break open © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anger, anger management, compassion, hardship, rage, suffering, surrender
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