A New Life
Our focus this week — July 16–22: “Stepping Into the Unknown”
Today’s MotD: A New Life. With transformation, loss, and/or change comes a new life…a new direction. Often times during the transition we tend to have one foot in the past and one foot in the future. We’re reminded that letting go of the past doesn’t mean we forget about it, instead we honor it and respect it, for it brought us to this threshold of a new life.
I’m reminded of when my husband and I moved from Florida to Oregon 25 years ago. He had been living there 13 years and I 10 years. We were ready for a change. As soon as we sold our condo, we quit our jobs, packed everything into a Ryder truck, hitched our 4Runner onto a trailer on the back and then made our way to Oregon. We took the southern route…it was late January after all.
We had nothing set up ahead of time in Oregon. All we knew was the city where we wanted to live. We were in our mid-40s, no children, no pets, so granted it was a bit easier for us to make this move. The seven days it took for us to get there gave us that transition time to process letting go of Florida and embracing the new life that awaited us in Oregon.
We had no idea what to expect, we just knew that we would do what we could to make it work. A now, 25 years later, I can honestly say, it’s the best thing we ever did.
How about you ? Are you in between letting go of the past and embracing a new life ? Are you open to a new life ? What steps do you need to take to make it happen ?
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 