Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Category: Sacred Stories

Contains sacred stories

  • WooHOOT!

    Sacred Stories

    They are expecting their first baby at the end of the month.

    A girl!

    As they were falling asleep last night, an owl was hooting outside.

    About 30 minutes later, she woke up and the owl was still hooting. That had never happened before.

    Her thought, “OMG, she’s coming!” was quickly replaced with the realization their baby girl might just be saying hi.

    The name they have in mind for their precious baby daughter is symbolized by the owl…

    WooHOOT!

    Indigenous people have always acknowledged the connection of nature and spirit. Welcome Baby Girl!

  • Hello, Grandma

    Sacred Stories

    Shortly after her grandma passed, she came home from college for a visit. Her room was a bed in the office in the basement.

    She saw a halo-like, fuzzy, light up near the ceiling.

    She thought of her grandma immediately.

    “Manifestations” of loved-ones passed come from the nonphysical to the physical realm through our senses: a touch, a smell, a sound, a sensing. It is important we not dismiss these gifts from spirit as our imagination.

    Hello, Grandma!

  • Perfume Hanging in the Air

    Sacred Stories

    They inherited his mom’s house. Long after everything that belonged to her had been cleared out, a whiff of her perfume would hang in the air.

    They would smile and thank her for stopping by for a visit.

  • Cardinal

    Sacred Stories

    After his “Mum” passed, he thought of her every time he saw a cardinal.

    He remembered well the old folklore saying that, “When a cardinal appears in your yard, it’s a visitor from heaven.”

    Other animals are recognized as messengers too.

    Let me know if you have a story to share of how you have been visited by a loved one.

  • A Cat Named Walter

    Sacred Stories

    This was the first winter since her husband had passed. Although this winter, they would not be coming to Southwest Florida as snowbirds together, she traveled with some friends, and was staying with other friends.

    Accompanying her friends, she was surprised that they had a cat named Walter. Walter was her husband’s name.

    Not really a cat lover, she felt oddly comforted by the fact that Walter came and settled in right by her feet. There he stayed.

    At the end of the evening, as she was getting up to leave, Walter got tangled up in her purse straps.

    “Walter doesn’t want you to go shopping!” one of the good friends quipped. They all laughed.

    It is not every day you meet a cat named Walter….

  • Togo Africa

    Sacred Stories

    She was having breakfast with some friends who had been visiting, enjoying the lovely January morning in South Florida.

    They spoke deeply about their shared Peace Corps experience, of having served together in Togo—officially the Togolese Republic—one of the smallest countries in Africa.

    Her friends were heading out to the airport.

    As she stood up to leave, a couple who had also been enjoying the cafe’s small outdoor seating area, spoke up, “We did not intend to intrude on your conversation, but we could not help overhearing your having been in Togo, Africa.”

    “I will be right back. I would love to know how you know about Togo,” she assured them it was not an intrusion. She had rarely met anyone who even knew about Togo.

    She settled the bill and bid her friends farewell before coming back to sit and chat with the couple, who had also served in the Peace Corps in Togo!

    Our three-dimensional reality certainly has an amazing ability orchestrating place and time….

  • Blood Relatives

    Sacred Stories

    Following his mother’s death, the man who had been his “father” as he was growing up told him he was not his real father.

    Soon, he was also told who his biological father was.

    And he discovered that he had siblings!

    Making contact with those folks, he learned his father and siblings knew about him.

    For years, he had been greeted with a big smile and warm words by the woman who worked at the hospital. That woman was his half-sister.

    In fact, when he had a grand opening of his restaurant, his father and sister had come.

    While he had just lost his mother, he had also received the gift of a larger family.

    The events of our lives might not always be simple, but Divine LOVE is within everything…

  • Screech Owl

    Sacred Stories

    He was awakened from a deep sleep by a very loud screeching sound. He opened the front door and looked out.

    An Eastern Screech Owl was perched on a branch, screeching!

    Owls were messengers, telling of a death. He “knew” immediately his mother had died.

    The following morning he drove to his parent’s home. Walking in the door, his father said, “Your mother is dead.”

    “I know,” he replied.

    “How do you know?” his dad asked.

    “A little bird told me,” popped out of his mouth.

    Pay attention. Nature is one of the ways we receive information.

  • When the Time is Right

    Sacred Stories

    She went to get a hair cut. The salon was intimate, located in the breezeway of the hairdresser’s home. As she arrived for her appointment, the hairdresser introduced her to the previous client.

    They discovered they lived in the same town.

    “We live on a very oddly shaped street,” the client gave her the street name.

    “I live on that street, too!”

    The street is “U” shaped. As the other client described where on the street she lived, it was right across from her, just one house down!

    “Did you just move in?” she inquired quickly.

    “We have been there twenty-three years,” was the reply.

    Although they had not met in all those years of living across the street from one another, her daughter had once many years ago been babysitter for the other client’s child.

    When the time is right….

  • A Little Bird

    Sacred Stories

    She was sitting inside one of the top medical centers in the United States after a doctor’s appointment that had not gone as well as she would have liked. Nothing terribly serious—issues related to age and high blood pressure, etc.

    She was thinking everything over: life, work, family, their recent move to another state. She was wondering if it was the right choice.

    A little bird perched on the chair across from her!


    She had had a rough childhood, and with her mother’s death much that had been unresolved came up for her.

    Peace had been coming. She was realizing the truth that her mother is now in her true form.

    Even though there had been distance between them in their physical lives, somehow there was a present understanding that her mom did love her.

    With so many others in this waiting area, the little bird landed on the chair and sat looking at her for a several minutes before it flew away.


    Her mother loved to bird watch with her father and her mother had shared that love with her.

    She knew her mother’s presence and love were with her right now….