Tag Archives: safety

Vanquishing evil spirits

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Different traditions call it different thingsbut it is the same task: Use your voice © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing | Tagged demons, evil, help, help me, protection, safety, spirits | Leave a comment

Strange safety

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

Helplessness can be safe being vulnerable can be safe – it depends on who’s hands you’re in © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged help, help me, hopelessness, safety, trust, vulnerability | Leave a comment

God’s safety

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

God’s safety always includes death © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged death, emptiness, koan, life, paradox, safety, surrender | Leave a comment

Shadow of God

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

When light fails you, try darkness; darkness is safe if it is my shadow you are yet close © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged blindness, Click save draft, darkness, help, help me, safety, shadow | Leave a comment

Those who have progressed, yet again

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Those who have progressed let God rescue and rescue and rescue © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged help, help me, rescue, safety, security | Leave a comment

But first, we must have the courage to die

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

How well we make our misery! How ardently you try to teach us new ways! © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged blindness, Click save draft, courage, darkness, death, help, help me, life, misery, resurrection, safety | Leave a comment

The God shelter

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Indestructible eternal, placid, soothing; unassailable doors slide open upon the words “Help me” © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, Earth poetry, Photo poem, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry | Tagged doors, eternal, eternity, indestructible, safety, shelter | Leave a comment