Tag Archives: path

How you need to look

Steep mountain trail curls through the forest in an unrelenting ribbon of rock and clay; I go forward, slowly, muscles burning on the climb; when I remember to look up, I see the also unrelenting beauty but some times demand … Continue reading

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God, magnified 1,000x

So close I get to you that you lose your familiar shape: have courage, my soul, you still are home what is foreign is the intimacy © Meisaan Chan

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One pathway there

Testing leads to trust trust leads to following following leads to submission submission leads to a million glowing stars © Meisaan Chan

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Home to you

The path plunges into darkness but I have chosen this path carefully and know its destination so I need not fear my blindness: home to you, home to you in the darkness, step by step I’m traveling home to you … Continue reading

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Homecoming

How glorious it is to know the names of the trees and streets and birds singing, where the feet can find the way home without asking and do © Meisaan Chan

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A tip for the journey

It is tempting to rely on your hiking poles upon the arduous ascent but remember that your legs and glutes are stronger: that the most obvious is not always the most efficient © Meisaan Chan

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In the face of hardship or risk or uncertainty

Spend 99% of your energy determining if you are on the right path. When you are, everything else is irrelevant. Just keep going. © Meisaan Chan

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Holy twisting

Do not demand that God’s path be a straight line for you very well could miss God’s path © Meisaan Chan

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Pit stops

All the stops on the pathway home! All the ways to forget where we’re going! © Meisaan Chan

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Mindful discrepancy

In worldly terms, it can be wise to take the path of least resistance; in spiritual terms, look for that which is narrow © Meisaan Chan

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