Desire a change?

The coaching model that I have submitted to ascribes that self-knowledge is a key to development. Not for the sake of changing who we are, but for understanding why we do what we do. With that understanding, we can make choices that will allow us to get different results. Sometimes it is not all that easy to see the why behind who we are. Here is what went through my mind on the topic:

Wanting a change?

I made my list
Checked it twice
Too much to do
For it to be nice

I come to you God
Again in this place
Show me Oh Lord
The place of your grace

I’ve seeded my time
To causes of worth
Multiply back
My life on the earth

Come blow away
The thinking that stinks
Keeps me locked in
Stuck up like the Sphinx

I’ve been in that place
Of flow and it’s better
Than worry and fear
Being under the weather

So here I am
With promise in hand
Boldly before you
In your presence do stand

Make my request
For mercy and grace
Adjust my thinking
Find my new place

From my experience
Many times past
Finding your presence
Brings changes that last

Opens my eyes
Gives fresh ways to look
Opens the door
To write the new book

©12/29/07, Glenn Mehltretter

Pressure - friend or foe!

Certain thoughts bring pressure
_______________________

Yesterday I walked this way
Seeking peace
The pleasant place
Place of comfort
And of grace

Connecting to
All there is

How to know
The work that fits
Calling forth
Your greatest whit

Not the work
That passes time
Performed for duty
Shallow mind

But that which touches
Deep inside
Engaging will and
Heart and pride
_______________________

Yet pressure is a concrete thing
The potter using it to bring
Beauty to a shapeless thing

The bumps that seek to have their way
Are pressured till they go away
Yet too much pressure brings a break
The piece is lost – what is at stake

Paradox it comes along
Resisting pressure makes you strong
Can have the opposite effect
Break one down and bring regret

As with everything in life
Achieve a balance
Walk Occam’s knife
Enquire of your deepest parts
To yield . . . stand firm. . .
What’s in your heart?

©12/28/07, 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

The Nature of God within

I placed My Spirit within
A human My way to begin
Create a race like Me
Spread love through eternity

The nature of God within
The place to begin over sin
Darkness can not displace light
Nor death the essence of life

Quiet your soul within
Begin my agenda to win
I said you will be like Me
My works do for all men to see.

©12/26/07, Glenn Mehltretter

Christmas thought

God is our source from within
To overcome sickness and sin
A stream of life springing forth
To reverse all that’s been but for naught

The candle within is so bright
Fueled by the creator of life
The quest is come to that place
For the glory to flow to our face

Earthen vessel though we may be
Inside there’s the glory of thee
Which hungers to break forth free
And drive the darkness off of the sea.

© 1/10/07 Glenn Mehltretter
(Sea in scripture frequently symbolic of peoples.)

Learning -- single, double and triple

Last evening I participated in a session around single, double, and triple loop learning.

Learning

I find myself
In a difficult place
The pressures of life
Not keeping pace

With all I know
Of the nature of man
My own life seems
Out of hand

How do I order
The things that I know
To reframe the world
To get up and go

Some is with skills
Faster and better
Learn how to do it
Get good at the letter

Some is by seeing
And changing the rules
What governs my life
At times I can choose

Some is with being
The who that I am
Transforming my role
In this scheme that’s so grand

These three talk of me
And my role
And my place
Where do I fit
What do I embrace

But the who that I am
Is related to you
The system I’m in
Bumps your system too

I suspect that these loops
Go on for ever
Well beyond
My mental endeavors

But change we will
As time goes on
To find a place
Serene and calm

To find that place
Where each one fits
A perfect match
For all our gifts…

©12/20/07, Glenn Mehltretter

Some thoughts

Attend to Me and I will attend to you.
Turn your thoughts to Me
And I am present with you
I am not far from you
But very close.

__________

I have a plan
Through ages to come
To bring all together
Under my son

He paid the price
That all might be
Returned to my glory
Returned to me

_____________

Who am I to think a thought. . .