Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: perseverance

  • Nine!

    During their phone conversation, he shared with his aunt that he was finally off parole — it had taken him nine years!

    They reminisced about the wonderful parole officer who genuinely cared about him, and what a difference it makes to have accountability come with love.

    After a bit more sharing, his aunt said, “Nine years. Wow. Nine is the number of completion. I will look up the spiritual meaning of nine and send it to you.”

    The number nine shows you’ve lived and learned;

    you’re engaged with living your life in a meaningful, conscious manner

    and you’re setting rewarding goals.

    Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ~ Romans 5: 3-5

    Amen.

  • Ants!

    Sacred Stories

    As she woke up that morning, she was dreaming of ants. She was sitting on the sofa, and scads of ants were crawling all over.

    She was trying to scoop them up, and place them out-of-doors safely, but there was an endless amount.

    A few moments later, in the kitchen preparing her baby’s bottle, she was eye-to-eye with an ant!

    If you do an internet search for “ant totem meaning” you will learn about the need to have patience, to work together with the community, and that you are more capable than you ever imagined. (Ants can carry 30 times their own weight!)

    We can all probably benefit from a bit more patience, persistence, and endurance.

    Have a Sacred Story about an animal totem you encountered? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.