Tag Archives: spirit

Saturated with God

Posted on October 11, 2018 by

I enter this world empty-handed and empty-handed I leave it saturated with God © Meisaan Chan

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Focus of the body, focus of the mind, focus of the spirit

Posted on August 30, 2018 by

The spirit is a delicate thing: Without sleep, focus of the spirit is the first to go © Meisaan Chan

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I have this fever for you

Posted on July 3, 2018 by

I have this fever for you burning me, demanding, relentless and aching come, O Lord, come © Meisaan Chan

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A gym of sorts

Posted on April 30, 2018 by

Strength does not come instantly but after repeated tears of muscle fibers and then the sets of repetitions over many weeks and months: This is also true for the spirit for life is calling you to lift, not just once … Continue reading →

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The unknowing space

Posted on April 26, 2018 by

Bring me past my anxiety to the unknowing space and in the unknowing, unjudging and in the unjudging, openness, letting all things flow through until I am flown through and in this all-unknowing, flowing through, peace © Meisaan Chan

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Gazing upon the Lord: Mutual work

Posted on October 27, 2017 by

All the work you do to attract my gaze, O Lord! All the work I do to hold it! © Meisaan Chan

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Reciprocity

Posted on October 26, 2017 by

As much as the opening as much as the receiving © Meisaan Chan

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