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Patience and Cranberries

On February 3, 2026

In Conscious Living, Health & Healing, Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Michael Avery

I was reminded in a recent contemplation to be more patient with Oi. Since English is her second language, I would need to give her more time to get her thoughts down on paper. My Inner Guide suggested, “Teach, don’t preach.”

At a local market later that day, I purchased a few groceries including some juice-sweetened cranberries for Oi. As we were unpacking the bags, she asked if I had noticed the company name on the cranberry package. I glanced down and smiled as I read it: “Patience Fruit & Company.”

Things I Choose (Story and Poem)

By Michael Avery

On January 28, 2026

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Health & Healing, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Poetry, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Guest post by Gloria Lionz

Life has a way of introducing us to people who are looking for a puzzle piece we carry for them. That’s what this poem was for a man I recently met in Mexico. I was there working with a team of medical practitioners at a clinic in a very small town outside Ensenada.

A Waking Dream on Life Changes

By Michael Avery

On December 30, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Inner Guidance, Spirituality, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by Jim Jackson

A “waking dream” is an experience (most of the time an unusual incident) which occurs in our outer, awake physical life. It is a message from Divine Spirit and the Inner Teacher. It may be an answer or suggestion or a warning. It usually has great physical, emotional, and spiritual significance.

Prajapati and the Secret of Nature

By Michael Avery

On December 21, 2025

In Animals, Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 7 minutes

Guest Post by Doug Marman

From: The Silent Questions, pages 129-131, by Doug Marman

I remember waking up from a vivid dream one sunny day, having dozed off in the afternoon. In the dream I had been reading ancient Indian teachings written upon red rock mountain walls. I couldn’t remember the writings when I awoke, but I was left with a deep feeling that there was meaning inscribed upon the Earth itself. It was like a message imprinted from ages of men and women who had crossed the land. Almost as if the planet itself had absorbed the conscious lessons of the lives of those people and was now trying to give back this wisdom to any who would listen.

Laughter in Her Veins

By Michael Avery

On December 12, 2025

In Conscious Living, Divine Love, Guest Posts, Health & Healing, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Poetry, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 5 minutes

Guest Post by Gloria Lionz

This tale began early 2022 when I started experiencing severe muscle fatigue and joint pain. Several specialists, tests, scans, and TIME later resulted in a single “generic prognosis:“ High inflammation since you’re getting old. Continue exercising and learn to live with the pain.”

Thanksgiving, 2025 (Poem)

By Michael Avery

On November 28, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Poetry, Spirituality

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

Look around—our world is fracturing,
news breaking like waves against our peace,
Uncertainty is the only certainty we know.
The ground shifts daily beneath our feet,
and we are asked to walk anyway, to live anyway,
to find our way through the storms of life.

On to Alaska

By Michael Avery

On November 4, 2025

In Conscious Living, Inner Guidance, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Michael Avery, featuring Lin Buer,
from Seven Signs from the Universe

When Lin Buer received word that she’d been offered a Human Resources Manager position at a hotel/restaurant in Talkeetna, Alaska, she was living in Kansas with her husband, Bruce. Such a long move would take some planning as well as some inspired packing. But, finally, they were ready.

Reinventing Yourself Spiritually: A Path to Inner Alignment

By Michael Avery

On October 28, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Personal Growth, Spirituality

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Doreen Chia

In a world that constantly demands adaptation, spiritual reinvention offers a deeper kind of transformation—one that begins within. It’s not about changing your beliefs or adopting new rituals for show. It’s about realigning your everyday life with the spiritual truths that guide you as soul. You are Soul! The body is only an outer garment we wear while living here in the physical!

More Than Enough (Poem)

By Michael Avery

On October 14, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Personal Growth, Poetry, Self-love, Spirituality

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by Gloria Lionz

This poem announced itself with three short words – “more than enough.” When that phrase landed I stopped everything, sat down, and listened for the “rest of the story.”

Perhaps the reader is familiar with similar feelings; the creative opening that appears where one chooses a response designed to provide pragmatic insight and the dynamic flow of creative empowerment.

I invite you to “listen” then celebrate this age old truth: when we’re aligned with love each of us automatically realizes we are “more than enough.”

HU—the Miracle Maker (Haiku)

By Michael Avery

On October 3, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Spirituality

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by Gloria Lionz

As with all my poems, a title arrives first, then I get quiet and listen for what it has to share. In this case, HU “spoke” of itself, in Haiku form. It was a nice surprise for me too.

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