Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: Guidance

  • See Cashier

    Sacred Stories

    She stopped to get gas. Her husband was in a hospital about an hour’s drive away.

    She inserted her credit card, punched in the ZIP code, and got the “See Cashier” message. She tried her debit card and it also said “See Cashier.”

    When she went in to the station, the cashier told her she had put in the wrong ZIP Code. The woman said, “We always notify the credit union and change to the Florida ZIP code for the time we’re here. I put in the Florida ZIP code.”

    As the cashier was running the prepayment amount, the woman said, “You know how people tell you inappropriate things? I’m on the way to the hospital because my husband may have had a heart attack.”

    The cashier said she would pray for him. Handing the woman the receipt the cashier looked right into the woman’s face and said, “You have such beautiful eyes.”

    The woman’s emotions were right on the edge, and she immediately teared up.

    Oblivious that there were people lined up, the cashier burst out, “Oh, you need a hug!” as she shot out from behind the counter, put her arms around the woman, and gave her a hug.

    During the embrace, lips up against the woman’s ear, that cashier whispered a prayer. “Dear Lord, be with this woman today and let all her news be good news.”

    She had been using the Florida ZIP code on both of those cards for a month already.

    Walking out the door she said over her shoulder, “It wasn’t about a credit card not working.”

    The cashier replied, “God works in mysterious ways.”

  • Song for Someone

    Sacred Stories

    Feeling a sense of self-judgment and doubt, she asked for guidance related to whether a spiritual group she was practicing with was right for her.

    In Buddhism, the antidote to doubt is faith, an active willingness to suspend self-judgment and to see for yourself what is true.

    “A Song for Someone” by U2 came on and the line in the lyrics she heard was:

    There is a light you can’t always see!

    She realized this was the answer!

    If there is a light
    You can’t always see
    And there is a world
    We can’t always be
    If there is a dark
    Now we shouldn’t doubt
    And there is a light
    Don’t let it go out

    She could see the mind state of doubt for what it is. And she was willing to see for herself what is true.

    And this is a song
    A song for someone
    This is a song
    A song for someone

  • Atlas

    Sacred Stories

    She had been talking to her friend about synchronicity at a time during which she was in the process of exploring options for relief from physical discomfort. Someone had suggested she try Atlas Physical Therapy. She was hesitant.

    Running some errands she saw not one, but two company vehicles with the name Atlas. These were not two vehicles promoting the same company, but two completely different companies with that name.

    Having fun telling her friend about the sightings, she recalled another friend had suggested she watch the film Cloud Atlas.

    While out driving, her friend saw yet a different ‘Atlas’ company van!

    Sometimes synchronicity is clearly pointing the way. Even when the way is not always clear, it is always delightful to notice and be willing to receive the meaning of the message.

  • Acupuncture

    Sacred Stories

    Her husband was in rehab. He had not yet regained bowel function, was bloated, toxic, terribly uncomfortable, and growing frustrated with the unsuccessful treatment: stool softener, laxative, suppository. “You would think a progressive hospital like this would have acupuncture available,” she lamented.

    That was noon.

    At 7:00 pm, she received a call from a client she had been playing phone tag with. The client was glad to make contact, hoping to schedule an appointment. “Unfortunately, my calendar is at home, and I am at Mary Free Bed hospital with my husband.”

    “Oh, that is such a wonderful facility. My niece was there for rehab and she did great. I will say, it was the acupuncture that really helped her,” the client chimed in.

    “Acupuncture?” she inquired.

    “Oh, yes, they offer acupuncture at the Wege Institute connected to the hospital,” was the response.

    Her husband had acupuncture the next day, and had a normal bowl movement after just one treatment.

    Every day since her husband had been moved to rehab, she had parked in the lot right next door to the Wege Institute.

    What we need is probably always closer to us than we might think….
    wege

  • Become a Priest

    Sacred Stories

    She purposely avoided engaging with the man entering the church just as she was leaving. She had never seen him before, and she was in a hurry to meet someone.

    She pushed on the door. It did not budge.

    Assuming that the right side door was locked already, her thought was to step left to go out the door the stranger had just entered.

    Although you might think she made this up, or that she was delusional, she knows when she is being “stopped in her tracks” by God.

    “Go find that man who just came in, and give him a message for me. Tell him I want him to become a priest.”

    Following that inner guidance, she found the man and gave him the message. He was moved to tears and thanked her.

    As she left the building and was about to get into her car, her cell phone rang. It was the friend she was scheduled to meet.

    Her friend excitedly exclaimed, “The most amazing thing just happened! I was with my friend this morning. He was very distressed, trying to determine if he was to take over his family business or go to seminary to become a priest. I sent him over to the church, knowing the service was over, but the doors would still be open. He just called to say some woman walked up to him, said she had received a message for him, and that God wanted him to become a priest.”

    We don’t always receive such immediate confirmation. The man had come to that church solely to pray, seeking discernment about the question she had been directed to deliver an answer to!

  • Saved by the Horn

    Sacred Stories

    This man’s memory of his having being saved by a horn honk is still alive after over fifty years. He writes:

    I was driving north on Bayshore for a date with my then-girlfriend. The speed limit was 55. Traffic was, as usual, heavy. I was listening to the radio and pretty-much lost in thought. I heard a horn honk. I looked up just in time to see that the traffic had come to a full stop in front of me. I jammed on the brakes and just barely managed to stop before rear-ending the guy in front of me. I looked around to see whom I should thank for the warning honk. No one was paying any attention at all to me. My sense has always been that the sound of the horn was “other dimensional.”

  • Thanks, Chrissie!

    Sacred Stories

    She went swimming one day, and as she was looking at the clouds, she thought, “I should have asked Chrissie when she was alive, that once she passed, I would know what that sign might be.”

    So she thought, “Okay, Chrissie, just give me a sign, any sign.”

    As she was driving home, there was a huge rainbow in the sky…

    “Thanks, Chrissie!”

    rainbow michigan city lighthouse sept 2015

    How often we might have thought something was too late, then realized those who have passed on are right here with us.