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Tag Archives: tenacity
In training
Sometimes you need to call outand call outand call outnot because God isn’t listeningbut because it is an exercise in tenacitythe next needed skill © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, depression, Food addiction, haiku, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged darkness, despair, rescue, salvation, surrender, tenacity, training, trust
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When in hardship
“My life! I can’t believe my life!” I exclaim. “I keep trying to give you the gift of strength,” says the Lord, “but you keep rejecting it.” © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, God speaks poetry, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged despair, frustration, hardship, help me, resilience, strength, surrender, tenacity
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Fight
Because growth is never granted, it is earned © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual strengthening exercises, writing
Tagged fight, grit, growth, strength, struggle, tenacity
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On the way to resilience
Do not run from the exercises that make you stronger Look for them! Jump into them! Claim your gift! © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual strengthening exercises, writing
Tagged adventure, exercises, faith, growth, hope, journey, strength, struggle, tenacity, weakness
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An argument for tenacity
Injustice rarely disappears at the first pass; if it did, there’d hardly be any injustice © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged injustice, justice, perserverance, social justice, tenacity
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In the face of hardship or risk or uncertainty
Spend 99% of your energy determining if you are on the right path. When you are, everything else is irrelevant. Just keep going. © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged adventure, blindness, Camino, faith, hardship, journey, path, risk, tenacity, trust, uncertainty, unknown, vision
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Mindful discrepancy
In worldly terms, it can be wise to take the path of least resistance; in spiritual terms, look for that which is narrow © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, courage, ease, flow, hardship, narrow, path, resistance, strength, tenacity
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Increments
The sun does not flounce into the sky with one brilliant leap but slowly crawls up the canvas in its own shifting light – even the most important thing to the earth comes in increments! – so, too, with discipline, … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, Earth poetry, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, discipline, earth, hardship, increment, journey, resilience, strength, sun, tenacity, wisdom
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Slow going
Sometimes it’s slow going because the path dissolved; but keep plodding, slow as it is © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Earth poetry, Photo poem, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged burden, community, hardship, resilience, slow, tenacity, trial, turtle, writing
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If I place my hope in the world
If I place my hope in the world, my hope is origami paper in the rain; If I place my hope in you, my hope is an eternal pathway to an eternal source O God, O God, O God © … Continue reading
Posted in haiku, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged chaos, despair, eternal, eternity, hope, resilience, source, strength, tenacity, writing
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