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Tag Archives: hardship
Sometimes we fear so much the naked night
Sometimes we fear so much the naked night we would do anything to avoid it even becoming stuck © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged adventure, burden, hardship, journey, light, night, stuck
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Empathy
“I’m sick of people using me,” I say. “They never see me for who I really am.” “Tell me about it,” God says. © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged burden, community, empathy, fatigue, friends, hardship
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How far you have brought me along
How far you have brought me along and how far there is to go! If I had known the path was so brutal I never would have started; if I had known the path was so exquisite I would have … Continue reading
The good teacher
doesn’t punish but knows that failure and hardship teach in ways that comfort never can © Meisaan Chan
Balance, again
I. You work so hard for me; do not forget to rest for me II. I will push you but I will never push you over only you can do that © Meisaan Chan
Incrementality
Slowly you raise the heat until slowly I acclimate then slowly you raise it again until I boil for you © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged adventure, burden, growth, hardship, journey, tools
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I am the way
Truly, perhaps all is journey: he did not say, “I am the end.” © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged adventure, comfort, hardship, infinity, Jesus, journey
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Two indications
If I never challenge then it isn’t me if I never comfort then it isn’t me © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged challenge, comfort, darkness, hardship, hope, light, strength
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A note to comfort
Sometimes love takes the long view well beyond your line of sight, but just because you cannot see the end does not mean that all is lost, it simply means you cannot see: keep walking © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged adventure, comfort, hardship, journey, love, pain, suffering
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Curving toward the center 