Just Show Up
Our focus this week — Oct 1-7: “Faith”
Today’s MotD: Just Show Up. Instead of worrying, speculating, and/or getting all worked up about something we’re wanting to do or create, we’re encouraged to have some faith in ourselves and the Powers That Be … and just show up.
Instead of worrying about things needing to be perfect before we’ll move forward, just show up. Instead of fretting about what people will think or say about what we’re doing, just show up. Instead of getting all worked up about whether we’ll be able to handle it if it fails OR if it succeeds, just show up.
If things don’t go as planned or expected, rather than see that as a “failure” or a “set back”, translate it as just “receiving feedback”. From there we can tweak it and just show up again.
Back when I was a software engineer at Hughes Aircraft—Radar Systems, “mis-takes” were a given and we had a process to handle them. We looked at what happened, figured out why it happened (or didn’t happen), what needs to be done to fix it, and then we proceeded by fixing it and showing up again.
Look at Major League Baseball, having a batting average between .250 and .300 is considered very good—players in this range are often key contributors to their teams. These hitters only average 2-3 hits for every 10 at bats…and they’re in the major leagues.
Today’s Message: Just show up. Our challenge becomes believing in ourselves, that we are capable of achieving that which we want to achieve, and have faith that the Powers That Be support us…it may look different than we expect, and yet in the end it will be what it needs to be.
How about you ? What are you holding back on going after for yourself ? Do you believe you’re capable of doing it ? Do you have faith in yourself to move forward ?
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 