Be Here Now
Our focus this week — Oct 1-7: “Faith”
Today’s MotD: Be Here Now. Sometimes (if not most of the time) it serves us best to stop fretting about tomorrow and just be here now—especially since it’s the ONLY time we can actually do anything. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not guaranteed, so we’re encouraged to do what we can today.
Regarding that dream I talked about yesterday, along with telling me that things are not in place yet for us to do anything about moving, it also told me to stop worrying about it and be present where I was, be happy and enjoy where I was, and that it serves me best to make the most of it. The move will happen soon enough.
After that dream, I relaxed about the move and focused on being present where I was. By letting go of it and trusting that when it’s time to move we’ll move, I allowed myself to enjoy my “present”. Before I knew it 2.5 years had passed and everything fell into place for us to move.
The funny thing is when we were able to move, everyone thought we were “moving” too fast, as if we had only just decided to move at that time. We had to remind them that it had been 5 years in the making, to which they said that because we hadn’t done it back then that we weren’t serious about it. They didn’t realize that we had let go of trying to make it happen and trusted it would happen when the time was right…which was 5 years later.
Even my boss couldn’t believe it and I had told him when he hired me five years before, that as soon as we sell our condo we’re moving. He too didn’t take it seriously.
Sometimes (again, if not most times), it behooves us to be here now as often as possible, and have faith that things have a way of working out for us in the long run.
How about you ? Do you find yourself so focused on the future that you forget to just be present in the now ? Instead of wishing things were different, can you find a way to make the most of your “now” until things do change ? What’s one thing you can do to remind yourself to be here now ?
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 