Tag Archives: sight

Parable of the woman and the bag of gold

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

There once was a woman who discovered a bag of gold and who ran through the streets with it shouting, “This is not gold! This is not gold!” © Meisaan Chan

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Trust me more

Posted on October 16, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

Not just higher;trust me deeperand broaderand innerNot just your eyes;trust me with your smelland tasteand sensing;fill your senses until trust consumes them allfill your space planes until I am everywhere © Meisaan Chan

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Maple tree lesson

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Meisaan Chan

You can look at realitybut there is a reality within the reality –do you see? Do you see the deeper reality within the maple tree?Within everything? © Meisaan Chan

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I travel the world looking for my love

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

I travel the world looking for my love;in airports, on the streets of VeniceI constantly refresh my browser, aching for just a glimpse of your face, aching for the ways you bend delight into the curvature of my heartand how … Continue reading →

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Accepting Blindness

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

You accept my blindness and work with me; sometimes sight comes only afterward © Meisaan Chan

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Surprises

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

All the ways you surprise me, Lord – all the secrets you slowly reveal like jewels, cradled in your opening hand © Meisaan Chan  

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How you need to look

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

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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In the darkness, the senses shift

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Eyes need light but ears do not; they do not fear the dark © Meisaan Chan

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Sight

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I am beautiful, says the Lord and sometimes I am putrid: Keep watch! Do not be lulled by your images of me, that first step to blindness © Meisaan Chan

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The forgetting

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Rushing through the day trying to get everything done so that nothing falls through the cracks and I’m so focused on this that you do fall © Meisaan Chan

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