Do Something Different
This week we focus on the value of “Patience”. Today’s MotD encourages us to do something different—making changes with ourselves—when we catch ourselves waiting for life to get better. Waiting for something else to change or someone else to change is not being patient…it’s mostly futile. In these cases, it would serve us better to ask: what can we change about ourselves that makes “waiting for others to change” a moot point?
For example, waiting for a certain person to apologize for something I saw as being hurtful to me was just causing me suffering and thus made my behavior unkind towards them. This is where I needed to learn to let go of it.
On the other hand, I submitted a story to a magazine for possible publication. They let me know that it would be five to six months before they would get back to me as to whether it was accepted or rejected. So I just have to be patient and hope for the best.
Essentially, we’re encouraged to better discern the difference between patience and futile waiting. Either way, some form of letting go is required.
And how about you? Are you waiting for someone to change? Are you wanting things to be different? Does it really require you to be patient or does it require a mindset change?
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 