Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: Sacred Stories

  • Three Hamburgers

    Sacred Stories

    She drove to Portland to visit a friend and meet his two pet ferrets. She stopped on the way and purchased three hamburgers: one for the two of them to share, and one for each of the two ferrets.

    Her friend was amazed when he accepted the bag and saw she had brought three hamburgers. “How did you know?” he asked. “Did someone tell you what I did two weeks ago?”

    She said she did not know what he was referring to, she was just guided to arrive with the three hamburgers as a gift.

    He told her he had recently been weak with hunger before a performance and had ordered three hamburgers for himself when he had been given the chance!

    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.

  • Solid Foundation

    Sacred Stories

    They have an 1880’s farmhouse and one of the walls “is” settling causing the wood floors to buckle. She noticed an area that was getting worse. In a panic she called a foundation expert to come out.

    He pointed out all the things that had been done over the past several decades to shore it up and make it sturdy. The area of the floor she had noticed that was newly disturbed was only caused by the dry winter.

    He said her foundation was as solid as ever!

    All of the “character” defects were really just that.

    She instantly realized this was a perfect metaphor for her life as it is right now: The foundation is solid; she has taken years making the repairs; now is time to build 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.

  • Inner Guidance

    Sacred Stories

    After she had her pet bunny put down, another bunny Mom sent her a gardenia plant in honor of her girl’s sweet life. She decided to take the plant on her road trip to her brother’s home in Washington state for Christmas.

    The day after Christmas, she and her brother spent the entire day with family near the Canadian border. As they were beginning the two-hour drive back to his house, something prompted her to tell him she was traveling with a plant (he hadn’t seen it yet).

    “By the way,” she said, “I am traveling with a plant.”

    “We have to go back,” he responded. “I left my cellphone at their house.”

    He told her when she said the word “plant” he remembered a plant he had admired earlier on a window sill. Then he remembered he had set his phone next to it. He told her he would have arrived home without his phone if she had not followed her inner guidance.

    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.

  • Foot Healed!

    Sacred Stories

    After returning home from a beautiful afternoon of cross-country skiing with a friend, she noticed her right foot was becoming stiff and sore. As she hobbled out to the kitchen to get a bag of frozen peas, placing it on the top of her foot the weight was painful. The pain started to move up the front of her leg so she decided to soak her foot in cold water.

    Sitting quietly on the couch she realized she has all the tools/skills to heal her foot. She removed her foot from the cold water placing both of her hands around her foot, she began connecting to that innate healing intelligence we all have.

    Visualizing her foot dissipating any pain and swelling, she felt herself restoring her entire body to health and wholeness.

    Still unable to put any weight on her foot, she hobbled into bed, however, she set an intention for her foot to completely heal during the night while she slept.

    The next morning when she got up, she had no pain and no swelling in her foot. She was able to walk normally….

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

  • Love, Hope, Cure

    Sacred Stories

    It was with a heavy heart she stood in line at the post office, looking at the incoming call. She could not take a call in the post office, but she did not want to speak to him right now anyway. She knew he was using drugs again.

    As she left the post office, she found this charm on the sidewalk…

    She was glad to remember that love, hope, and cure are always possible.

    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.

  • Yeast Dough

    Sacred Stories

    She and her husband were camping in a remote location in a state park. Up early, sitting at the picnic table writing in her journal, suddenly the fragrance of yeast dough filled the air.

    Looking around, half expecting to see someone with an oven making bread, she realized this was a “spirit-smell.”

    Her grandma worked in a neighborhood bakery and always smelled of yeast dough!

    She treasured the early-morning visit.

    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.

  • ZViola

    Sacred Stories

    She was with a realtor touring a house. The home was new, but had been empty for three years.

    The daughter of the previous homeowner was there, and when it looked as though a sale was going to take place some personal contact information was to be shared.

    “What is your email address?” the daughter of the homeowner asked.

    “ZViola@blahblahblah.com,” she replied.

    The daughter of the homeowner began to cry. The home had been built by her father for her mother who passed without enjoying living there. Viola was her mother’s name.

    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.

  • Freshly-lit Cigarette

    Sacred Stories

    Her dad had passed years earlier when she was alone one evening, driving in her car with all the windows rolled up.

    The smell of a freshly-lit cigarette lifted from the back seat and filled the car.

    She knew instantly her father was visiting.

    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.

  • Silver Ladder

    Sacred Stories

    When she was just three years old, she was at the lake with her older cousins and fell off the dock and into the lake.

    Running for help, the older cousins returned with her mother, who expected to see her floating face down in the water. Instead, she was sitting on the doc soaking wet.

    When asked how she was able to get out of the water, she replied simply that she had climbed up the “silver” ladder.

    Of course, there was no silver ladder.

    To this day (some 60 plus years later) she still remembers clearly climbing up the “silver ladder.”

    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.

  • Dinner is Here!

    Sacred Stories

    A missionary was serving in a third-world country. He and his family had very little in the way of provisions, living in the mission with about a dozen others.

    One day there was absolutely no food for any of them but the missionary kept saying, “God will provide.” When it was mealtime, they gathered around the table set with dishes and utensils, but they had no food.

    The missionary started to pray, thanking the Lord for the food and for their day.

    As he finished the prayer, someone knocked at their door. It was two women saying they were very sorry for being late and asking if they had already eaten. The missionary smiled and said, “Well, not yet!”

    The women came in, delivered a wonderful meal, telling how early that morning the Lord told them to cook for that family and they were sorry for being late because they has missed the bus!

    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.