Come From the Heart
Our focus this week — Nov 26-Dec 2: “Vulnerable Honesty”
Today’s MotD: Come From the Heart. We start a new week looking at the concept of “vulnerable honesty” both with ourselves and with others—where it seems appropriate. Often times, rather than allowing ourselves to be vulnerably honest, we tend to ignore the inevitable truth, lie about it in some way, or hope it magically takes care of itself on its own. Anything so as not to face it because it’s either too painful, we risk some form of loss, or we don’t want to hurt their feelings.
This is more than just being honest about our reaction to a friend deciding to dye their hair with purple and green stripes (although, that might be a cool look that the friend could pull off). This is about honoring the truth about ourselves to ourselves and/or to other people.
And when it comes to other people, we’re reminded that we have no control how they react or respond, that’s on them. So thinking that we’re doing everyone a favor by stuffing our truth, we’re actually doing the opposite.
For instance, I have a dear friend who sings and has written some songs. Knowing that I can sing (usually harmonies are my “specialty”), she asked if I would sing with her for an upcoming open mic. I loved the idea. And it turns out that we sound great together. We were a hit at the open mic and looked into more opportunities to sing.
My only issue was I prefer to sing light, uplifting songs. Her songs, while beautiful, were more melancholic and for me, a bit heavy. Not wanting to hurt her feelings about her heartfelt songs, I continued to rehearse with her. Hear/Here’s the thing, it was becoming more challenging for me to hit the harmonies and our rehearsals were becoming more challenging rather than fun. I figured it would all work itself out but deep down I knew it had to do with the fact that I would rather sing songs more to my heart’s liking and my off-singing was confirming it.
We met for tea one afternoon and she asked about us rehearsing some more and I finally had to be honest with her. It broke my heart because I really enjoy singing with her, she’s a dear, dear friend and I didn’t want to hurt her—or lose her as a friend.
She graciously understood and yet I could see a twinge of hurt on her face. Thankfully, we’re still dear friends although I do miss singing with her.
How about you ? What’s something you’d love to be honest about with someone but fear doing so ? What is this fear ? Knowing that we cannot control how other people react, would you rather keep your honesty to yourself (maintain the lie) or are you open to allowing yourself to be vulnerably honest with them ?
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
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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 