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Tag Archives: strength
Do not succumb to the temptation
Do not succumb to the temptation to shut down in the nightfor deep healing happens herestrange healingsee what isstay alert © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Food addiction, haiku, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, spirituality, writing
Tagged healing, help, help me, strength
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The purpose of strength and healing
I do not make you strong and anchoredso you can feel superior;I make you strong and anchoredso you can serve I do not heal youso you can feel self-righteous;I heal youso you can serve © Meisaan Chan
For those who worship strength
If you want to be transformedlet your heart break openlet it shatter © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, haiku, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged emptiness, gain, loss, strength, surrender, transformation, weakness
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The quiet in the chaos
Into the darkness we goas one heart, as a heart of nations, as a heart of worldstumbling and fearing and hopingfighting and growing and rejoicingchaos on top of chaos, it seems:But there is a quiet thing hereand it is growing, … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Earth poetry, meditation, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged calming, coronavirus, endurance, life, soothing, strength
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Strange coronavirus gratitude
What a strange time to be alive.We are a snow globe, shaken hard:In the blizzard but anchoredand eventually the snow will settle –that is why the tiny world is glued down,meant to withstand hard shaking © Meisaan Chan
Posted in anxiety, contemplation, Poetry, Rumi, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, Spiritual strengthening exercises, writing
Tagged coronavirus, help, help me, hope, strength
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When unbalanced
Everything that doesn’t matter takes up so much space! – So you cannot see what does © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, haiku, PTSD, Rumi, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged anchor, blindness, help, help me, strength, unbalanced
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Strength and fragility
All people carry strength and fragility, which many hold in disproportion: To abjure your strength is to dwell in false smallness. To abjure your weakness is to dwell in delusions of self-God. Both are false. Blessed are they who claim … Continue reading
I wither without you
I wither without you my firmest ground falls from beneath me should you turn but one thought away all strength is dust, flung to the wind I wither without you © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, haiku, PTSD, Rumi, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged dependence, ego, freedom, independence, Self, strength, weakness
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For you, for them
It is an act of compassion to let someone be who they are –the struggle to change someone can be violent © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, Food addiction, haiku, PTSD, Rumi, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged acceptance, compassion, humility, love, strength, trust
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You’re not done yet
Just when you think you’re done just when you want to celebrate the path long trod you notice that the path now obscured and faint, curves around a bend: You’re not done yet © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged courage, difficulties, help, help me, journey, path, resilience, strength
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