What are We Passionate About ?
Our focus this week — June 25-July 1: “Passion”
Today’s MotD: What are We Passionate About ? Seriously…when was the last time we checked in with ourselves to ask: what am I passionate about ? Another way to ask it is “what lights us up ?” or “what makes our hearts sing ?” We may find that we’ll have to travel back to our childhood to uncover that truth.
For me, it was doing anything arts-craftsy and play-acting with my girlfriends. Everyone knew what to get me for Christmas or my birthday: any kind of craft kit or paint-by-numbers set. As far as the play-acting, every year when the Wizard of Oz would air on TV (usually sometime in the spring) we would re-enact the entire movie at our school bus stop each morning for a week. Happy times.
Then life happened. It wasn’t until my late 40s that I allowed myself to return to doing art. And I was in my early 60s when I started performing in our local community theater…now I can’t get enough of it.
With today’s question, our challenge becomes letting go of judging it, thinking that it has to be some big, profound, earth-shaking “thing”. The reality is that It could be something as simple as having a passion for making cupcakes (per her book, this was one of Melody Beattie’s passions). It could be tinkering with cars. It could be writing poetry. Just figure out what lights YOU up, then do that.
You may find watching the movie “Runaway Bride” helpful in seeing what NOT following our passion looks like. The bottom line is we’re looking to be true to ourselves.
How about you ? What are YOU passionate about ? What lights YOU up ? What makes your heart sing with joy every time you do it ? Do That.
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 