Opportunities
Quoting from Melody Beattie’s book: “Consider each day of your life as an opportunity to consciously learn, practice, or apply values that are important to you. Usually the situations that most require us to practice our values feel the most difficult.”
Currently, I’m feeling negatively triggered by the upcoming change in our presidency (U.S.). With my top two values being curiosity and play, I can see where I could apply curiosity to it by being curious as to how this happened or how it will “play” out. Or I could be “curious” about my own reactions and my responses to whatever happens and go from there.
On the other hand, I’m struggling with how to apply “play” to something that I see as a serious threat to our country and all of its citizens. In one regard I suppose I could watch it unfold as if watching a play…in other words to take an observer’s viewpoint. And maybe as the play progresses it turns into an interactive event where I might play a role in this play…hopefully for the better…regardless, it’s my choice. I’ll have to ponder a bit more as to how to apply “play” to this opportunity.
How about you? What would be the value(s) you would apply to “opportunities” that arise?
BTW…Here’s the before…the front and back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
🏵️ Creating Mandalas — Awakening Inner Harmony
ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 