Control
To quote Melody Beattie “When we can’t control anything or anyone around us, we can gain a sense of control by living with integrity.” To that end, we’re encouraged to take to heart the essence of the Serenity Prayer… in that we ask for help in learning how better to discern what we do have control over and to let go of that which we don’t.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and Wisdom to know the difference
Essentially, the only thing we can control is ourselves—namely our thoughts, our actions, and our reactions.
How about you? Is control an issue for you? I know, for me, it’s getting easier the more I work through it but there was a time where I felt like I had to control EVERYTHING! And all it brought me was pain and suffering.
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 