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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 meditation, Poetry, recovery, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, 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
Posted in meditation, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, spirituality, writing
Tagged healing, humility, life purpose, strength, union
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For those who worship strength
If you want to be transformedlet your heart break openlet it shatter © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, 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 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 Poetry, Spiritual poetry, 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 Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, 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
Posted in meditation, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged compassion, ego, fragility, humanity, spiritual exercises, spiritual strength, strength, weakness
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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 Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, 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 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 Poetry, recovery, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged courage, difficulties, help, help me, journey, path, resilience, strength
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Curving toward the center 