25-101 Open to Love

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MotD 25-101 Open to Love — after. painted front side of Puzzle Piece No. 175 with colors of yellows, greens, beige, pinks, purple, orange, and blues.

Open to Love

This week we focus on “Love-ability”. Today’s MotD encourages us to allow ourselves to be open to love, which in the past (and/or currently) may have been an issue. Per Melody “Some of us learned to protect ourselves by caring for others, while refusing to let love into our own lives. We found that it is easier to shut down and not be open to love, rather than be denied love. … After a while we stop seeing the love that is there for us.”

Our challenge becomes softening the tough shell we put around our hearts so that we can start letting people give us love, letting their acts of love sink in.

I figured out a few years ago that I had put up a tough shell after my first marriage ended around 40 years ago. Then I put another layer over it after the end of another long term relationship. Looking back on it now I can almost pinpoint the exact moment when I declared that I would never let anyone hurt me like that again.

Over the years, I’ve been chiseling away at these layers. What I’m realizing now is that I’ve missed out on so much because of this thick dense shell. I’m still alive and breathing, so I have hope that I’ll emerge from this shell victorious…and fully open to love.

How about you? Do you have a tough shell that could use some softening? Are you open to love? Are you open to even a little bit of love? If you’re not allergic, I find hugging puppies (or kittens) is a good start.

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:

MotD 25-101 Open to Love — before. front side of Puzzle Piece No. 175
MotD 25-101 Open to Love — before. back side of Puzzle Piece No. 175

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.

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My Mission: connecting with our Inner Light in delightful, inspiring ways For me, creating mandalas is more than just coloring pretty patterns in a circle. I do it because my spiritual evolution and creativity require it of me. My mandala designs come about within an active meditative state, connected with my higher self, my spiritual guides and nature spirits. Together, we bring into form, mandala art the allows me to re-connect with my own inner peace and joy, letting me explore and expand my own creative spirit to however far and in whatever direction I want to take it. As part of my own spiritual journey, I encourage, and hopefully inspire, others to explore their own creativity, to help them re-connect with their own inner peace and joy. As a means to that end, I make all of my mandalas available for people to color. Why should I have all the fun?

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