For your RSS reader:
Top Posts & Pages
Tags
- abandon
- acceptance
- adventure
- anger
- anxiety
- awareness
- beauty
- blindness
- burden
- chaos
- comfort
- compassion
- contemplation
- coronavirus
- courage
- darkness
- death
- discernment
- door
- earth
- ego
- emptiness
- eternity
- faith
- fear
- focus
- freedom
- growth
- hardship
- healing
- heart
- help
- help me
- hope
- humility
- independence
- infinity
- intimacy
- journey
- joy
- life
- light
- listening
- loss
- lost
- love
- meditation
- obedience
- openness
- pain
- path
- peace
- power
- praise
- prayer
- presence
- rescue
- resilience
- rest
- silence
- spirit
- strength
- struggle
- submission
- suffering
- surrender
- trust
- union
- unknown
- vision
- vulnerability
- weakness
- wholeness
- wisdom
- writing
Tag Archives: isolation
You are not alone in living your life
You are not alone in living your life, says the Lord: When you live this, anxiety will decrease, when you live trusting that I am your partner, your helper, and that I so very willingly rescue © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged alone, anxiety, companionship, help, help me, isolation, loneliness, surrender
Leave a comment
Countercultural, III
American independence is one of the greatest altars of our time and is one that most severely hinders the spiritual path © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, altar, hinders, independence, isolation, path, power, pride
Leave a comment
I cannot carry your burden
I cannot carry your burden but I can carry your heart © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged companion, company, friendship, help, help me, isolation, soulmate
Leave a comment
The end of aimlessness
When I, alone, drift through the cosmos, tether me to your heart; may I trust in the strength of its hold on me and watch as the tether pulls taught © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged alone, company, connection, cosmos, heart, help me, isolation, loneliness, tether, union
Leave a comment
Doing exactly as you please
Doing exactly as you please without being affected by others could be a sign of freedom or isolation © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged busyness, freedom, independence, isolation, loneliness, schedule
2 Comments
Approaching as close as we allow
Hijabbed woman next to me, reading morning prayer silent teen across from me, eyes closed hunched man engrossed by his indefatigable phone: All the ways we enter our days all the ways you enter them with us approaching as close … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged connection, Islam, isolation, presence, technology, union
Leave a comment
Togetherness
The dark is thick so stick together don’t go through the night alone © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: Twisted Sifter)
Posted in addiction, Earth poetry, Photo poem, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged community, connection, dark, healing, isolation, light, strength, writing
Leave a comment
Bone-dead dry
Bone-dead dry eyes weary, withered: where, O God, are you? © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged darkness, depression, doubt, isolation, loneliness, prayer, presence, question, writing
Leave a comment
You spend a lot of energy trying to leave, God says
“You spend a lot of energy trying to leave,” God says. “As much as I want to, I can’t say,” I say. “It’s not right. But neither is leaving.” “Such a conflicted heart!” God says gently. “What’s the way out?” … Continue reading
Posted in Feminine God, God speaks poetry, Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged discernment, fear, isolation, leaving, religion, union
Leave a comment
Empty inside
Empty inside under-skin-hollow so much horrid space © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry
Tagged despair, disconnect, empty, fragmentation, hollow, isolation
Leave a comment
