Tag Archives: suffering

Awfulness

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

“This awfulness doesn’t end,” I say accusingly. “You have not made space in your heart for a beginning,” says the Lord. © Meisaan Chan

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The messiness of healing

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

The faint of heart will never heal for healing involves pus and discoloration and oozing: pray for the courage to tend the wound © Meisaan Chan

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Ubiquitous teaching

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

If you only learn from wise humans you are missing most of the lessons © Meisaan Chan

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How can suffering be part of the plan?

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

“It wasn’t,” God says, tending to my wounds, “but now it is.” © Meisaan Chan

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The good teacher

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

doesn’t punish but knows that failure and hardship teach in ways that comfort never can © Meisaan Chan

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A note to comfort

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes love takes the long view well beyond your line of sight, but just because you cannot see the end does not mean that all is lost, it simply means you cannot see: keep walking © Meisaan Chan

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The path of emptiness

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Let go of suffering – what are you to do with it? Let go of joy – what are you to do with it? For you will not lose what you think you will lose and you will not gain … Continue reading →

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Laughing Buddha

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

There he is, laughing, his flaccid breasts hanging out but no matter: he knows that suffering is almost eternal and that is only one side of the coin © Meisaan Chan

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Suffering

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

The snow falls gently upon hardship in the strange way that softness comes © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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May all of life bear your fingerprint

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  May all of life bear your fingerprint: trees and rivers and stars, joy and suffering and loss; may all of life be washed by your touch and may you leave hints everywhere that yes, you passed     © … Continue reading →

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