Tag Archives: writing

On problems

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Problems rarely just go away; they go away most completely when they are healed © Meisaan Chan

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Before the fury of the day: The five-minute prayer

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I have five minutes to love you as I wish and the rest of the day to love you as you wish © Meisaan Chan

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The exquisite hand

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

With just a turn of the head, the web turns invisible, a reminder that we are surrounded by an exquisite hand though perhaps we do not see © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Tenacity’s nature

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Tenacity deepens not with hardship but with rounds of hardship © Meisaan Chan

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The bypassing

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I grow fat with love sometimes the times are lean: free me from all this and connect me to that umbilical cord which bypasses famine, drought, delight © Meisaan Chan

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A prayer to stop wandering in ruts

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

O Camino God, my journeyer: help me remember the pathway out of my ruts so I do not wander in ruts but journey home to you © Meisaan Chan

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Doorway to God

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

To ask for and accept help is to walk through the eye of a needle, which cannot be done without help © Meisaan Chan

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Burdenless

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

If all is submitted before the altar of the Lord then there is nothing else to carry © Meisaan Chan

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Water at your ankles

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Warm water at your ankles the human talks gently, softly as the sun rises, all is bathed again © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)  

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Divine persistence

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

All the ways you love me! All the ways I run away! All the ways you love me! © Meisaan Chan

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