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Unrealistic expectations

A large wound does not heal overnight: that is how it is © Meisaan Chan

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The catch

The catch is to stay on the path especially when the path dissolves © Meisaan Chan

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Ancient wounds

God can be a tender father but for those who’ve never had a tender father God can be a tender mother but for those who’ve never had a tender mother God can be a tender spirit and soothe and soothe … Continue reading

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How can suffering be part of the plan?

“It wasn’t,” God says, tending to my wounds, “but now it is.” © Meisaan Chan

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Nothing is not connected

Healing feeds all resentment poisons all © Meisaan Chan

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The necessary starting place

You shine like the sun; all my heart’s corners cringe in the light © Meisaan Chan

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The wound

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

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Limits

Sometimes the walls are far on the horizon and I run and dance and work late into the night; sometimes the walls pull in and I cannot do what I did before: slow, pained movements; sometimes the walls pull in … Continue reading

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Choices

You can stay in the space of self-righteous indignation but then you will never heal © Meisaan Chan

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Stepping out of the wound

I surpass all woundedness, says the Lord so step out of your woundedness and into my surpassing © Meisaan Chan    

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