Don't stop at the door, enter right in!

There is nothing better
Than to be in touch with the king
A place to be found
To kiss the ring

The door is open
Invitation clear
Just step right in
I would meet you here

Many who come
Find it hard to enter in
To leave behind
The burden of their sin

Yet the price is paid
Your covered in the blood
Just take my word
Be enfolded by my love

© 5/30/08, Glenn

If your thoughts could be heard.

I've read accounts of heaven. Some propose that communication is through thought. Not a foreign concept in science fiction and even eluded to in scripture concerning Jesus: (John 2:24-25)"He knew all men... He knew what was in man."

Suppose you knew that your thoughts will become an open book.

There will come a time
When your thoughts
Are free
Abel to be heard
For all to see

So practice now
Within your mind
To think thoughts
Holy, nice and kind

Thoughts that bless
And lift up
Thoughts that share
The holy cup
Thoughts that send
A word of health
Encouragement
And of wealth

Begin you now
This noble quest
For thoughts that are
The very best

For you don’t know
That even now
The thoughts you think
Are seeds that
Words do plow

For mighty power
Is in your tongue
To transform thoughts
To actions done

© 5/2/2008, Glenn
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The lighter side -- inside

Look inside
What’s going on
Think of good things
Drawing you on

Things to be learned
Things to be done
Walking with others
Very fine ones

Think of the joy
When things come together
Sharpen each other
Get better and better

Think of the times
When challenges huge
Felt overwhelming
Tempted to kluge*

Remember those times
With no way to pass
They did open up
Like very long grass

So hold on securely
The hope to complete
There will be a finish
With you on your feet

©1/29/08, Glenn Mehltretter
*Term used by tech folks to throw together a “patchwork” solution.
definition: kluge vt. To lash together a quick hack to perform a task

New years eve 2008

Had an interesting experience last evening. Eleven of us, and a bunch of kids, came together to share some of the ways God intersected our lives in the past year. As people were sharing some verses came to mind. As I would write the verses the content of the next speaker would aligned with the just written verses -- interesting.

New Years Eve 2008

Thank you Lord
For mercy and grace
Times of beauty
Find our place
Walk together
Hand in hand
Growing up
To know your plan

Not a solo
Place to be
But joined together
To be free

Your spirit dwells
Within our hearts
Showing us
The other parts

My spirit will
Show you the way
To walk in fullness
For today
In fullness of my
Perfect plan
Your part revealed
By gentle hand
______________

I’ll bring you to
Your special place
Part of the larger
Work of grace

My body will
Behave as one
Needed for
The job be done

For in the end
All things will be
Brought together
Fully free
______________

Show us Oh Lord
Our place to go
Your holy purpose
Not for show

Replace with truth
The things we think
Draw us higher
Make complete

©12/31/07, Glenn Mehltretter

Meeting the requirements

My coach has provided evidence that I generally turn inside for answers. That, in it self, is not a bad thing, it can be a good thing. The issue he poses, is that I miss receiving helpful incite from others. What I am missing he calls "external referencing." He says research has shone that external referencing is a prime determinant of resilience. Where "resilience" is related to how well we deal with change. In common language you might say that the people who talk things over with others are better able to adjust to change.

In this context I was considering some potential changes to how I was approaching my business.

Requirements

What are the requirements?
Things that need be done
To carry out the business
Not to lose the fun
To make a contribution
While flowing in your knack
Moving always forward
Not needing to look back
Free from things that pull
Your nature from its place
Free to do the work
You naturally embrace

Alone it never happens
By your-self it can’t be done
It takes a breadth of skills
That seldom rests in one.

©12/27/07, Glenn Mehltretter

What focus for my time

Today, my coach kept bringing me back to "what is the most important issue (to be dealt with)." He suggested I mind map all the things going on in my life and interes, and look for a thread or an axel that tied it all together. It is interesting that I had done that listing last month. When I did, it presented itself as the following.

The Myriad of Things

Lord I come to you
King of all the earth
Make request of you
For wisdom on this earth

The myriad of things
A part of daily life
Pile up around
Suppressing peace and light

Yet deep inside I know
The plan you have is so
Complete and with a flow
That peace does overflow

Some have a natural way
To negotiate each day
And not be overcome
By the things that need be done

But they are very few
In this world of do and do
While the rest of us are blue
Beset with much to do

Where does the answer lie
Is it community or die
Find the place where each one fits
Determined by our gifts

It can’t be done by man
Must be the unseen hand
Where many move as one
And myriad gets done.

©10/14/07, Glenn Mehltretter

EGO

Context: I am beginning this blog at the suggestion of my coach, Mike. He has been encouraging the introvert me to allow others to see my more garded side. Well I'm going to post some poetry. I'll begin with a shot at defining ego.

EGO

Who am I – My ego knows
It dresses me in ego clothes
Creates a world where I can live
With solid walls, or like a sieve

I am the center, I am my hope
It changes over time, I group
And find there is much more to me
Than only parts that I did see

For you out there impact my life
I might not like it, try to fight
But it is true I see it now
In a vacuum I did plow

And over time I now do see
There is more to me than I can be
For you are part of who I am
Divorce can not from unseen hand

This thing called flow can only be
In context of both you and me
For my life is not alone
It really is communal home

©11/28/07, Glenn Mehltretter