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Tag Archives: poverty
When the world stops spinning
When the world stops spinningand you and I meet at lastI, in deficit, without shoes and starvingYou, abundant:Finally, in stillness,I accept what you’ve been trying to give © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Food addiction, meditation, Poetry, Scripture riff, writing
Tagged acceptance, chaos, contemplation, emptiness, help, help me, meditation, poverty, stillness, surrender
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The prayer of the pipe
My power is in my emptiness My humility is in my emptiness May I empty onto empty, O Lord © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged contemplation, emptiness, meditation, pipe, poverty, union, vessel
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The path of emptiness
Let go of suffering – what are you to do with it? Let go of joy – what are you to do with it? For you will not lose what you think you will lose and you will not gain … Continue reading
Posted in Food addiction, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged Buddhism, gain, grasping, joy, loss, poverty, suffering, surrender
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Poor in spirit
I belong because you are I journey because you are I hope because you are I am because you are © Meisaan Chan
Rejecting them all
All the possible alternatives to your plan – I want none of them! Dust and refuse! © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search
Tagged adventure, diligence, focus, follower, following, journey, leader, poverty
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If you have no car, no bike, no phone, no shoes, nothing that the world values
There are so many ways home, says the Lord; come home, dear ones, come home © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Photo poem, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged comfort, compassion, home, poverty, train
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If they take it all away
If they take it all away and all my kingdoms fall I’ll have nothing left to look at but you If they take it all away and I run to you you will show me that they didn’t © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Food addiction, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual strengthening exercises
Tagged betrayal, kingdom, loss, poverty, riches, sustenance
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First fruits
Empty self, plucking open-handed golden gift wildly poor, rich © Meisaan Chan
Get picky
There’s a lot of not-food out there and so much hunger © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Food addiction, Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry
Tagged food, hunger, poverty, pride, spiritual hunger, starvation
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Gifts
I have nothing of my own to give you I can only nurture your gifts, then re-give; like Mary: you gave her a seed and she gave you a child I own nothing but the gestation © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged birth, gestation, Gifts, Mary, poverty, spiritual poverty
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