Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: photo

  • “Wait, is that me?”

    His dad recently got a pilot’s license so he flew up to pick his son up at college and bring him home for the weekend. They were at the Mason airport, where his Grandpa Mac had kept an airplane in a hanger.

    They were in the terminal and he stopped to look at a picture on the wall. He looked and looked and then said to his dad, “Wait, is that me?”

    His dad did not know the photo existed or who must have hung it in the terminal.

    Apparently, he had come to the airport with his grandpa for a ride or maybe to a pancake breakfast. That photo had to have been taken over 20 years ago….

    Hello, Grandpa Mac!

  • Spilled Soda

    Sacred Stories

    They were navigating the grief of the passing of their adult son. Her husband said, “If I just knew he is happy where he is, it would be easier.”

    She knocked over a can of soda, spilling it down and under a nearby chair.

    Moving the chair to clean up the soda, they found a photo of their son with his grandmother and his step grand-father.

    They knew they would not have moved that chair or found the photo if the soda had not spilled.

    In that photo they saw the answer from their son: they saw his very happy face!

    Blessed assurance….

  • Page 166

    Sacred Stories

    I walked out of my office, having just posted a Sacred Story titled: Like Talking to Your Dad Again!. He had passed 49 days ago, and his daughter was having a sense of his presence.

    My husband was sitting at the dining table reading a book about the history of our area.


    He asked what I was doing, and I mentioned having just posted the sacred story about our friend.

    “I am looking at a photo of him right now,” her husband said, pointing to a page in the book.

    I immediately sent a text message to his daughter. “I just came out of my office having published your sacred story and here is a picture of your dad on the page of a book my husband is reading.” I sent her a copy of the cover of the book, and the photo of her dad. “Your dad’s photo is on page 166!”

    “That is….I don’t know what word describes it!” she texted back.

    “Now your dad is just showing off,” I responded.

    “He always did have a flair for the dramatic,” she shot back.

    Be mindful of your experiences so you can recognize and share your sacred stories. They lift us all up….

  • Surprise!

    Sacred Stories

    He traveled to spend the holiday and meet the family of the woman he had started dating. He knew a good friend of his brother had married a woman from that town.

    Driving around, he saw the restaurant where that couple had met and where the guy had proposed to his wife.

    Driving back by the restaurant again later, he took a photo and sent it to the guy, saying he was in that town for the holiday.


    He got a text right back from the guy telling him to look closely at the photo, “I am in that photo! I was walking across the parking lot at that exact moment!”

    The timing of events of our lives are not random. We witness sacred connections….

  • Happy Anniversary!

    A Facebook post:

    Weird how anniversaries can bring up so many emotions that we don’t even realize we have stored away.

    Today would’ve been my 24th wedding anniversary, and in true form, a picture of my first husband fell out of an old journal.

    He would be proud of our girls. He would probably just shake his head and tell me, “Good luck with that, Babe.”

    Funny how much time can pass but certain memories never fade. Today of all days, to have his photo fall out of that journal….

    “Happy anniversary, Honey. Ted’s covering for you, and loving our girls well.”


    happy anniversary