Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: Sacred Stories

  • Dimes!

    Sacred Stories

    His friend had died of a drug overdose.

    The day after the wake, he found a dime in his suit jacket pocket.

    Two days later, on the way home he had chills and goosebumps and his friend’s photo fell off the visor in his car.

    The next day he found a dime in a jacket he had not worn for a year.

    After his grandpa passed, his grandma started finding dimes. His grandpa had told her anyone could send pennies from heaven, but she would get dimes!
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    These are sacred stories. Have one to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • Crow Feather

    Sacred Stories

    He missed his mom since she had passed, but he thought of her often, and this day he also thought of his mom’s good friend.

    Within minutes, his mom’s friend called to tell him she had just found a Crow feather standing in her yard. Crow was one of her dear friend’s totem animals.
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    Arriving home, imagine his shock and delight. Standing in his yard was a Crow feather!
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    They recognized the visit from spirit! These are sacred stories. Have one to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • 35 Years Plus One Month

    Sacred Stories

    When I was 28 years old, I told myself that I wanted to be in a place to “retire” by the time I was 35 years old.

    My goal was to be free and offer my “work” to the world.

    I got released from my job exactly at 35 years plus one month!

    How humbling to see that our most sincere intentions come true.

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    These are sacred stories. Have one to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • Ship Comes In

    Sacred Stories

    The family was all meeting with the pastor to plan his mother’s eulogy. “In some cultures it is common for the spirit of the loved one to visit. Although that is not as well recognized in our culture, I hope you will remain open to the possibility that she will visit.”

    “She already has!” came the shout.

    Just days before, his mom had passed away. She had been living with his sister in another state.

    At 3:30 am, the morning before they were driving to her home town for her visitation and funeral, the plaque fell off the wall. The plaque is hung on a wire which is hung a by a screw that is pushed upwards!

    The plaque was a gift from his mother.
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    This visit was such a perfect fit for her sense of humor!

    Send email to debra@scs-matters.com if this story reminds you of a visit you have experienced. They are really very common!

  • Bat

    Sacred Stories

    Imagine the chaos that erupted when bats began showing up inside resident rooms at the senior living complex…

    Intentional about bringing a deeper sense of things to every experience of life, she suggested to her colleague that they look up the symbolic meaning of bat in Medicine Cards.

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    Her colleague was new to the use of symbolic cards, but she was able to immediately see there was great significance of the bats visiting their facility. She was intrigued.

    Encouraging her colleague gently, she urged, “We can shuffle the cards and draw another one to see if there is additional insight we can gain.”

    What card was drawn?

    Right!
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    Synchronicity is one way the divine speaks to us in our lives. These are sacred stories. Have one to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • KK

    Sacred Stories

    It was about 3 am when a feral kitten came into the porch with some coaxing.

    She was up with a terrible headache.

    Within an hour, after two bowls of food, the kitten jumped up on the coach and curled up with her for short periods of time.

    She had been having headaches fairly often since her son had recently passed. (See “You Cannot Lose Him”)

    “I had the feeling he sent the kitten to comfort me. It is marked somewhat like Butter Cup, the stray that adopted Kalvin.”

    The kitten now has a home and has been named KK, for Kalvin Kenneth.

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    Send email to debra@scs-matters.com to share a Sacred Story you are aware of. Sharing blesses us all.

  • Polished/Unpolished

    Sacred Stories

    She preferred going to confession out-of-town. Something felt much safer to her not being known by the priest hearing her tell of her inner worries, wounds, and wonderings.

    The priest suggested she buy a special kind of stone—one that had a rough side and a polished side. He said that stone was to remind her that difficult times are just the polishing process.

    She fished around in her purse to produce a key chain she had bought two weeks prior:

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    Have a Sacred Story of the divine workings in your life or the life of someone else you know? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.

  • 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.

  • Starr

    Sacred Stories

    Starr was a wonderful dog. Starr lived with Linda and Tim, and their children, Billy and Christie. Starr loved each of them, and the family was blessed to have her with them for seventeen years.

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    Starr began having really bad health problems. It was painful for the family to watch.

    One day, as she was being bathed, Starr’s beautiful black fur began coming out in clumps.

    Starr could barely move, so Tim took her to the vet. When the vet recommended putting Starr to sleep, Tim went back home to get Linda. The vet administered a shot, allowing Starr to pass peacefully in Linda’s arms in just a few seconds.

    Oh, how Linda cried!

    But Linda says she remembers well what happened next, “As I left the room, I went out into the lobby where a woman unsuccessfully tried to keep her dog from jumping all over me. I went down on my knees, hugging and petting that dog. I told the owner how much I needed that then. It was a beautiful experience that can still move me to tears all these years later.”

    Send email to debra@scs-matters.com with a Sacred Story you would like to share.

  • Turquoise Ring

    Sacred Stories

    Separated from her husband, adjusting to parenting her son alone, nervous about finances, especially now missing the support of her mother, she went for a hypnotherapy session.

    “Do you have a piece of jewelry from your mom?” the therapist asked.

    She told the therapist, “Strange you should ask. I have my mom’s turquoise ring, but in the recent chaos of life, I have not been able to find it.”

    During the session, a memory related to the ring surfaced. She had been suffering with a ligament issue in her thumb. It was not healing. She put her mother’s ring on, and within one day, her thumb was healed. She knew the ring would show up and everything would be OK…

    Later that evening, she sent a photo to the therapist, with this message, “Look what I found!”
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