Tag Archives: humility

Taking the credit

You can be proud and think this goodness is the work of your hands, but then a great wall is separating me from you © Meisaan Chan

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Fear is not the opposite of courage

Fear is not the opposite of courage; self is the opposite of courage © Meisaan Chan

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Take me where you want me to go

Take me where you want me to go: my dreams for myself are so small, with you the realm of planets is at my feet © Meisaan Chan

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In the field

Get out of the office of your life and into the muck of the field forget about how you appear be abandon © Meisaan Chan

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The manger empties

You take up so much space within yourself, says the Lord; when you empty self of self the manger empties so the child can be placed within © Meisaan Chan

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Perspective

Big blackbird lifts into the sky and above the scraggly trees; well, I call them scraggly she calls them beloved © Meisaan Chan  

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The powerful, wise ones

The time you feel invincible is the time to proceed most cautiously © Meisaan Chan

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Silencing the errant voice

Sometimes the most errant voice is my own: in these times, silence, Thou, me © Meisaan Chan

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The road of holy self-awareness

The road of holy self-awareness can only lead to compassion © Meisaan Chan

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The danger of expectations

Sometimes you come in smallness and if I only look for you in the big I will miss you, O God of the small © Meisaan Chan

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