Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: Sacred Stories

  • Car Title

    Sacred Stories

    Her husband had recently passed away. She was slogging through the mental confusion of grief. Bringing the recycle bin back from the curb, she noticed one piece of paper still lying in the bottom of the bin. It was her car title!

    She realized her husband was still helping her.

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • Rob Swartz

    Sacred Stories

    While in a client session, she suggested a soul purpose reading with Rob Swartz, a man she had just spent the week with on retreat.

    Her client said, “Rob Swartz! I just listed to his podcast!”

    While she had met Rob at the retreat, she did not know about the podcast.

    Rob’s podcast is l-o-n-g, but you will probably find it worth every second, as it is touching on everything from politics to suicide to atheism. What a gift!

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • Beautiful White Butterfly

    Sacred Stories

    She had traveled to India by herself. As she arrived at the airport, she felt a bit nervous, wondering just how in the world she was going to manage to find her way around.

    A beautiful white butterfly suddenly caught her attention.

    She became mesmerized watching it.

    A few moments later, it few off.

    As she exited the airport, she was surprised and delighted to see a car and driver, waiting, holding a poster with her name on it!

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • Being Cared For

    Sacred Stories

    Her husband was coming home from the hospital, scheduled to have home care for about a month until the wound on his leg was healed.

    She was on the phone with the home care company who had failed to identify the leg infection previously when she suddenly had a very strong energetic visit from a friend who was in spirit.

    She backed off the phone call.

    It was as though her friend was right there in the room saying, “NO, NO, NO!”

    She worked with the hospital to get another home care company set up. This company specialized in the exact type of wound vac dressing her husband was coming home with.

    Sharing all of this with another friend, who also knows the woman in spirit, she simply wrote, “We are being cared for by everyone here!!!”

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • Heart in a Tree

    Sacred Stories

    Her day was done, and her thoughts peacefully tucked, beyond the soiled ground, which soaked up the rain drops. While yet, the sun glowed with radiant delight. A sweet glow of tangerine mist filled the sky, as her heart settled near the base of the tree.

    She sat reflecting, the moment, of stillness, and felt two hearts close to hers. Her mom, and now her dad.

    Her eyes drifted to the middle of the tree.

    A heart with much fullness embraced her, drawing her in.

    She felt a breeze, and wiping the tears from her eyes, she heard a whisper. She listened again. She heard it with her ears. She listened yet again, and this time it came from her heart:

    “I will never leave you. My heart surrounds yours. I will be with you. Trust your heart, I will guide you. We love you, Mom & Dad.”

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • Acorn

    Sacred Stories

    At the conclusion of the retreat, everyone pitched in to clean the common areas. As she was stacking chairs in the meeting room, she found a small acorn.

    She picked it up, and took it home.

    A couple of days later, she picked up the acorn and held it in her hand as a “touchstone” while she meditated. When she finished meditation, she opened the Daily Word to read the message for that day, she read these words: As I hold a small acorn…

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • Robbery Thwarted and More

    Sacred Stories

    She was at home when two men entered their home with the intention to rob them.

    She was just overcome by courage. She began to speak to the two men like they were children, saying, “You should be ashamed of yourself, you have no right to be here, and you need to leave before you get in trouble.”

    And they did!

    Sharing her experience with her spiritual teacher later, she was assured she had overcome the karma of fear of being accosted and she would never have to face that again in this life.

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • Lightening!

    Sacred Stories

    His twin brother had recently died. Feeling bereft, and needing to get away, he went to visit girlfriend.

    He looked out the window and saw a bolt of lightening coming straight down. The lightening struck a tree outside the window, breaking off a large branch. The branch fell onto the truck he had just driven there in.

    It was his brother’s truck.

    His brother’s password for everything was “Lightening!”

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • Timing is Everything

    Sacred Stories

    Lou was a young pastor just finishing up his first year in his first church. That September, he said to one of his church leaders, “Hey, David, do you think I could take off the Sunday after Thanksgiving?”

    “Sure,” he said, “just make sure you get someone to do the service. Are you and your wife going to go away to a football game?”

    “No, I will have to leave town that weekend. My Grandmother is going to die then.”

    “What? How can you possibly know that?” David demanded.

    “Well, she is dying, and when her son, my Uncle, visited her this week, she said her goodbyes to him. He wasn’t ready for that, and made her promise to be with him this Thanksgiving. So she will stay for that, then go.”

    About ten weeks later, Lou got the call that his grandmother had died—the day after Thanksgiving. He was able to go to her funeral.

    If we listen to the people we love, they will tell us what their plans are!

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • I Could Smell Him

    Sacred Stories

    She and her mom were both still reeling from the death of her brother, who was a senior in high school.

    One day her mom said, “Did you smell him? I could smell him….”

    It was such a new thing for both of them. They knew what they smelled.

    “Yes,” she said to her mom, “I smelled him too.”

    (One of the more common ways the spirit of a loved one can manifest when it is near, is scent.)

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.