Tag Archives: path

You might despair at the interminable path

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

You might despair at the interminable path but the stones have been laid by your spiritual ancestors knowing your feet would come © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Always and forever

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

No one said the path would become this foreign and yet still, you go before me © Meisaan Chan (Photo Credit: National Geographic)

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We’re making it out of here alive: yes

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

We’re making it out of here alive: yes the jaws snapped shut without us death-paths turn to life-paths; we run hand in hand, hearts take to flight © Meisaan Chan  

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A prayer to stop wandering in ruts

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

O Camino God, my journeyer: help me remember the pathway out of my ruts so I do not wander in ruts but journey home to you © Meisaan Chan

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On the beaten trail

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

The wise know when maps are necessary and when they mislead © Meisaan Chan

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Spiritual leaders

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Honor your teachers but follow God alone © Meisaan Chan

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Deep in the labyrinth

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Doors follow me. I don’t know why, but that’s how you reveal yourself, in the perpetual choice: to go or to stay posed again and again and again, each door leading to others in a tangle of doors and the … Continue reading →

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The waiting door

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Exploring your identity is to know what glowing stuff you’re made of, and where it comes from, and why, and how: the path always pushes deeper inward until you come to the waiting door © Meisaan Chan

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The slow God

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes you take your time and so to be with you, I, too, need to slow down and find contentment in matching footstep with footstep © Meisaan Chan

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The eternal approach

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I shall not lounge languidly in heaven but shall continue where I left off, not one footstep removed, infinitely approaching the infinite heart © Meisaan Chan

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