Making Amends
Our focus this week — Aug 27-Sep 2: “Forgiveness”
Today’s MotD: Making Amends. We start a new week with the focus on forgiveness. And today it’s all about making amends. In order to do that we first need to become aware of the harm we’ve done to others…as well as to ourselves.
Saying we’re sorry (and meaning it) is powerful work. It means that we’ve acknowledged to ourselves that we’ve hurt someone we care about, we’ve recognized that we sincerely need/want to apologize to this someone, and that now we’re making the effort to connect with that someone to let them know that we’re truly sorry.
The most challenging part of this process is knowing that that someone may or may not (ever) accept our apology…and we need to be okay with that before going in. If that someone does reject our apology, which is their choice to do—that’s out of our control—, it does NOT mean that we’ve failed in any way. It means, at least for ourselves, we’ve done what we could, and, at the least for us, our healing has begun, our growth has expanded a step closer towards inner peace.
How about you ? Do you allow yourself to be aware of when you may have hurt someone ? Are you able to sincerely apologize ? Are you able to be okay with your apology whether it’s accepted or rejected ?
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 