Acknowledge
We continue this week focused on practicing an attitude of gratitude. Today we’re asked to acknowledge everything in our lives from a place of gratitude regardless of how it appears or seems to be in this moment because it’s possible that we have yet to realize the reasons or benefits behind them.
One of the lessons from “A Course in Miracles” states that “everything is in our best interest” that’s why we’re encouraged to say “thank you” to everything. We may not know the why of it in that moment; we’re to just know that all will be revealed a some point.
For instance, here’s an arbitrary example. A restaurant server works diligently and always with a smile. She takes great pride in what she does. One day she has a particularly difficult customer and yet she gives them the same service she would give anyone else. After they left, she spots that they left a penny as a tip. Disheartened, she pockets the coin and clears their table.
Later that evening in the comfort of her apartment, she empties her uniform pockets and finds the penny. It frustrates her to see it because she knows that she deserves better than this. She tosses the coin towards the top of her dresser. While in mid air, she spots something unusual about the coin. Upon closer inspection she sees that it’s got some extra markings on it. She searches online and discovers it’s a 1955 double die obverse penny worth about $4,000!
Moral of the story: we never know what blessings may come our way disguised as misfortune.
How about you? Are you able to acknowledge everything in your life with gratitude?
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 