Try Harmony Instead
Our focus this week — Sep 10-16: “Harmony”
Today’s MotD: Try Harmony Instead. We’re reminded that we always have choices—we may not always like our options—some situations can make it seem downright impossible—but ultimately we get to decide…that’s the gift and the curse of free will. And given our many options, we’re encouraged to try harmony instead of anything internally that may create or exasperate our suffering.
One of my favorite lines from “A Course in Miracles” gives us a way to remind ourselves of this option:
I can know peace instead of this
I also like to ask for help in difficult situations by calling out to the Powers That Be:
Help me see this differently
So why are we encouraged to choose harmony instead ? Contrary to what we may think, it has nothing to do with what’s going on around and outside of us and EVERYTHING to do with us internally. Ponder this for a moment…imagine what this world would be like if all 8 billion+ of us chose harmony instead anxiety, anger, resentment, fear, frustration and the like ??? Isn’t that worth striving for ? (spoiler alert: yes, yes it is)
We’re reminded that in order to make something like that a reality, it HAS to start with each one of us on an individual level. Yes, there’s a bunch of crap going on in the world right now making this choice particularly challenging. Choosing harmony seems like we’re being asked to live in denial of said crap. Not if we look at it this way…be the calm, eye of the storm (harmony) while in the midsts of the crap swirling all around us.
Help me see this differently. I can know peace instead of this.
How about you ? What area(s) of your life could you choose harmony instead of chaos ? Is there one small action or mindset change that could lead you towards harmony ? Are you open to believing that you can know peace instead of this (person/thing/situation) ?
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 