Ask
This week we focus on the concept of prayer. Today’s MotD reminds us that one of the key forms of prayer is asking. We can ask for insight, forgiveness, guidance, help, blessings, and so on. Our challenge becomes thinking that if we ask for stuff we’re going to bother our HP, or that we’re asking for too much, or that we should figure things our for ourselves, or that by asking for help it’s a sign of weakness. To which our HP says, get over yourself…we’re here to help.
That being said, we might want to look at the “why” behind our ask. If we’re asking our HP to take away a certain problem, it may be that this certain problem is a necessary part of our growth and it serves us best to work our way through it; although we CAN ask for help and guidance on how best to do that.
For instance we could put our asking prayer this way: “Dear HP, if you can take this burden from me I would greatly appreciate it; however if it’s meant for my highest good, then can you show me in a clear way how best to work with it and/or through it?”
On a mundane level, I ask for help in finding things that I’ve misplaced. I know that my HP (in this case St. Anthony, who I love to call Tony) can’t just bring the misplaced thing to me but we can play a game of hot/cold, or sometime’s I’ll get an image flash in my head of where to look, or I’ll feel the need to go to a certain area of the house for some other purpose, and lo and behold, there’s the item.
Essentially, we’re being reminded that it’s okay to ask…as a matter of fact, it’s encouraged.
How about you? Are you open to asking your HP for help as a form of prayer?
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 