24-298 Faith

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MotD 24-298 Faith — after. textured abstract background with colors of yellow, golden yellow, red, muted purple, beige, off white. on top in reddish-brown ink is outline of a large heart that’s bigger than the paper. inside the heart shape are three flowers growing up from the bottom, and three small flowers growing from the top. the flowers, in different muted colores, are simply drawn in outline form with yellow and white dots in their centers.
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Faith

“great trust or confidence in something or someone”

Today’s MotD is mostly (actually, all) about having confidence in ourselves…to believe in who we are and what we do…and to know that who we are and what we do matters…at the very least, to us.

It’s about trusting ourselves to be able to handle whatever comes our way…to know that even if we aren’t able to handle it completely, we’ll still love and accept ourselves regardless…that we still matter.

It’s about knowing what we truly want to create for ourselves and trusting that we can make it happen……Ok…I have to stop right there…at the moment I’m struggling with most of what I’ve written so far. Great in theory…in practice…not so much.

I feel this inner drive to make the MotDs and all the other things I do and yet I have doubts about them because it doesn’t feel like it goes anywhere. I start questioning my efforts. Is any of what I’m doing helping anyone? Is it helping me? Maybe that’s the issue as well…maybe it’s all about creating and letting go of the outcome or whether anyone buys/likes it or not.

I admit that part of my lack of faith in who I am and what I do is because I’m dealing with the limiting belief that success can only be measured in dollars and cents or (worse) the number of followers I have on social media. Intellectually, I know I get to define what success means to me and it can be defined in so many other ways and yet I’m stuck believing I need outside validation as a determination of success.

So…I believe in my heart-of-hearts that who I am and what I do has value…for the most part. My challenge, and maybe this is true for you too, is to connect with that wounded part of myself that lacks that belief…to gain an understanding of its position and help it/me heal and transform it.

How about you? Is faith a core value for you?

BTW…here’s what it looked like to begin with …

MotD 24-298 Faith — before. textured abstract background with colors of yellow, golden yellow, red, muted purple, beige, off white.

joyfully,

Maureen
The Mandala Lady

🌟 bringing sanity to an insane world through the art of mandalas

About the 2024 Mandalas of the Day

Each day I will create and post a mandala inspired by one of 366 “value” words chosen randomly. The objective being to discover for myself which ones would best represent my core values…and by doing so, I hope it inspires you to determine your own.

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My Mission: connecting with our Inner Light in delightful, inspiring ways For me, creating mandalas is more than just coloring pretty patterns in a circle. I do it because my spiritual evolution and creativity require it of me. My mandala designs come about within an active meditative state, connected with my higher self, my spiritual guides and nature spirits. Together, we bring into form, mandala art the allows me to re-connect with my own inner peace and joy, letting me explore and expand my own creative spirit to however far and in whatever direction I want to take it. As part of my own spiritual journey, I encourage, and hopefully inspire, others to explore their own creativity, to help them re-connect with their own inner peace and joy. As a means to that end, I make all of my mandalas available for people to color. Why should I have all the fun?

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