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Tag Archives: trial
Handling fire
This is not a game or a hobby, this is my heart afire and you, learning how to handle © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Feminine God, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, haiku, meditation, Rumi, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged contemplation, fire, help, help me, mastery, meditation, power, surrender, trial
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The spiritual trainer
I am not afraid of fibers tearing, says the Lord that is the only way to strength © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, burden, journey, pain, sacrifice, spiritual training, strengthening, stress, Tearing, trial
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Heart stuck
Rusted moments immovable fear O Lord, unseize my heart © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged anxiety, fear, movement, paralysis, peace, trial, turmoil
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Samurai litmus test
If you moan about how wisdom comes in fire, if you whine at her hardship, you are not yet a samurai © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged discipline, endurance, forbearance, hardship, resilience, samurai, trial, wisdom
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Greater than your fear
May your curiosity be greater than your fear © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in Earth poetry, Photo poem, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adversity, challenge, courage, curiosity, fear, trial, writing
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Understandable refusal
Those who reject death are those who reject transformation are those who reject enlightenment © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged death, enlightenment, hardship, resurrection, transformation, trial
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Switchbacks
When there is a mountain to climb do not expect the straight road © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)
Posted in addiction, Earth poetry, Food addiction, God speaks poetry, Photo poem, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged adventure, burden, hardship, journey, path, strength, trial, writing
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Digging in
Digging in to find the joy stubborn, adamant: there must be joy here and then finding it © Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged determination, hardship, joy, resilience, stubbornness, trial, vision
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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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