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Tag Archives: space
Submit your fear
Submit your fear, says the LordDo not hang onto it –what purpose will that serve?How will that save you?Have the courage to let it go, to place it at the altarGreat sacrificeBe free © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, haiku, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Rumi, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged anxiety, fear, help, help me, obedience, space, submission, submitting
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Vulnerability
Sometimes being vulnerable allows for space © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged emptiness, help, help me, humility, openness, recovery, space, sublime, vulnerable, weakness
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Pushing out the fear
My dear, let me take up all of you and overflow so there is no room for anything else © Meisaan Chan
Another reason to leave space in your soul
Joy expands to fit the size of its container © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged container, contemplation, joy, meditation, soul, space, spaciousness, transcendence
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The plea
Grief brutal and raw O help me, God © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged addiction, healing, help, help me, recovery, rescue, space, tending
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Self-identification
If your heart is a closed door all around you, you will behold closed doors; If your heart is a wide, open field all around you, you will behold the space © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged door, eternity, fear, generosity, heart, identification, infinity, mirror, space
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Awfulness
“This awfulness doesn’t end,” I say accusingly. “You have not made space in your heart for a beginning,” says the Lord. © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Feminine God, God speaks poetry, Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged awfulness, beginning, help, pain, space, suffering
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Empty luggage
What you carry will not feed you the things inside will not protect you © Meisaan Chan
Posted in God speaks poetry, Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged burden, carry, freedom, luggage, space
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It is not silence for the sake of silence [sermon reflection]
Fr. J. Michael Sparough, SJ, of Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House recorded a Lenten homily reflection for today and wove one of my recent poems into it. He speaks of preparing for a great feast – Easter – and the ways … Continue reading
Posted in A note from Meisaan, Audio - reflection, Guest reflection
Tagged alleluia, emptiness, Fr. Michael Sparough, Lent, preparation, purification, space
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