25-363 Give In Order To Receive

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Mandala of the Week 25-363 Give In Order to Receive — after. painted front side of Puzzle Piece No. 363 with muted colors of bue, green, orange, purple, and yellow

Give in Order to Receive

Our focus this week — Dec 24-31: “The Puzzle of Love”

Today’s MotD: Give in Order to Receive. We’re encouraged to give the love we always wanted to receive. This is pretty much the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do to you.

There’s also another, more profound aspect of this, in order to give love we have to be in a place of love to share it. Ever try to give love when angry, fearful, resentful ? No. We actually have to shift gears into love in order to give it. Which means, technically, we don’t have to wait for someone to give it to us, we “give’ it ourselves when we share it.

To put it in other terms, we can’t share a slice of pizza with someone if we don’t have any pizza.

Essentially, we’re the ones who give and receive love to ourselves…and then we extend it outwards.

How about you ? Whenever you give love to someone else, what’s your state of heart in that moment ? Is it fear, anger, or resentment ? Or is it that you are in that place of love when you share it ?

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 Week 25-363 Give In Order to Receive — before. front side of Puzzle Piece No. 363
Mandala of the Week 25-363 Give In Order to Receive — before. back side of Puzzle Piece No. 363

Peace & Blessings,

Maureen
The Mandala Lady

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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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