Common Ground
Our focus this week — Sep 10-16: “Harmony”
Today’s MotD: Common Ground. In any difficult situation, find common ground. Harmonize with what is. To use Melody Beattie’s example: When we’re at the beach we can take our shoes off, lay down in the sand, feel the wind in our faces. When we’re at a bowling alley, we don’t do any of those things. We’re still the same person whether at the beach or a bowling alley…but we adapt [harmonize] to the environment in both cases.
So when we are in a less-than stellar situation, in order to maintain our peace (and maybe sanity), we adjust…we find common ground regardless of how little ground it covers. For instance this afternoon, I participated in a zoom call with three other people. One person I knew, the other two I didn’t. I found myself being triggered by the behavior of one of the people I didn’t know.
My peace was slowly drifting away and I could feel it in my body. Remembering all that we’ve been learning lately, internally I began sending this person good wishes: “may you find peace”, “may you be happy”, “may you feel safe”. Then I remembered some of “A Course in Miracles” stuff and asked Holy Spirit to help me see this person and situation differently. As well as focusing on what we may have in common.
I’m not entirely sure it was successful, however I did find that sending them good wishes kept me calmer than had I let my ego voice take over with its downward spiral.
How about you ? Do you “read the room” and harmonize (adapt) to what’s going on ? Would you rather resist what “is” than find common ground in order to maintain inner peace ? What do you do for yourself to help you harmonize ?
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 