25-266 Sometimes I Can do it Better with Help

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Mandala of the Day 25-266 Sometimes I Can do it Better with Help — after. painted front side of Puzzle Piece No. 290 with colors of blue, purple, and yellows

Sometimes I Can Do Better With Help

Our focus this week — Sep 17-23: “Letting Someone Help”

Today’s MotD: Sometimes I can do better with help. We’re encouraged to learn that we don’t have to go it alone…we can always ask for and welcome help. And by doing so we also learn how much better it can be for us to have that extra help.

In 2017 I was commissioned to create a mandala design for a street mural as part of “Open Streets”. Along with the design, I headed up it’s painting. Let me tell you, there’s no way I could have done this by myself. I definitely needed help.

It took about 8 hours and at least 30 creative and enthusiastic volunteers who came and went throughout the day to help. For me to do it alone it would have been at least a two- or three-day job. Not only was it better with painting help, it was better just being around all of that can-do energy and community spirit.

Check out this 3 minute video of our progress through out the day. Along with still shots, the overhead views & video give an amazing perspective, as well as showing just how big this mural was.

Here’s a photo of just a few of the volunteers after we finished painting. That’s me, fourth from the left.

group photo of volunteers after painting street mural

How about you ? Have you found that sometimes you can do it better with help ? Are you at least open to having a better experience with help ? In what areas of your life right now, would extra help be a blessing ?

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:

Mandala of the Day 25-266 Sometimes I Can do it Better with Help — before. front side of Puzzle Piece No. 290
Mandala of the Day 25-266 Sometimes I Can do it Better with Help — before. back side of Puzzle Piece No. 290

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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