Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: spirit

  • Electricity

    Sacred Stories

    She and her grandson were driving in her car. He was working on his homework, and asked her to turn the radio off. She did, but a block later, the radio came back on!

    When she would get into her car, she noticed the bright lights would be on. She knew she never left them on high beam. As she backed out of the driveway, her turn signal came on. She looked up and the rear view mirror was tilted down.

    At that moment, she knew for sure she had been visited by her husband.

    (Note* Many people say they experience odd electrical system happenings with their loved ones who have transitioned.)

  • Backbrush

    Sacred Stories

    She had a back brush she would use to scratch her back when it itched. She kept the brush on the floor next to her bed.

    backbrush

    One night, soon after her husband died, when she turned down her bed, the brush was in their bed!

    This is my simple religion.
    There is no need for temples;
    no need for complicated philosophy.
    Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
    the philosophy is kindness.     ~ Dalai Lama

  • “The Afterlife Connection”

    Sacred Stories

    Following her husband’s death, she found seeing it too painful, so the helium balloon he had given her was put in the guest room, out of sight.

    On the anniversary of his passing, though deflated for many long months, that balloon re-inflated and floated out of the bedroom, down the hallway, and came to hover directly above his chair.

    This is only one of the messages she has received. She suggests The Afterlife Connection: A Therapist Reveals How to Communicate with Departed Loved Ones, by Dr. Jane Greer.

    Dr. Jane Greer, a classically trained therapist, began with the belief that the bond that exists between the living and the dead is not purely a psychological one, but is, in fact, much more dynamic and empowering. In the shattering aftermath of her own mother’s death, Dr. Greer learned—and shows us as well—that transcommunication is not simply a “hello from heaven” but a powerful therapeutic tool that is available to any of us. Through this communication, the pain of grieving can be made more bearable, ambivalent relationships can be healed, and a loved one’s messages can bring relief and joy.{Amazon.com}

    (See also the previous Sacred Story, Hope You Feel Better Soon.)

  • Crane and Hummingbird

    Sacred Stories

    Adjusting to the passing of her brother included her move to Florida.

    She was delighted by the Sandhill Cranes, but naïve to the connection with her brother until one particular crane that had consistently followed her around in the yard pecked at a glass hummingbird she had placed in a flower pot until it broke.
    hummingbird-broken

    Only then did she realize he was still with her, now in another form!

    crane

    (See the previous Sacred Story about Hummingbird: He is All Around Me.)

  • Saved by the Horn

    Sacred Stories

    This man’s memory of his having being saved by a horn honk is still alive after over fifty years. He writes:

    I was driving north on Bayshore for a date with my then-girlfriend. The speed limit was 55. Traffic was, as usual, heavy. I was listening to the radio and pretty-much lost in thought. I heard a horn honk. I looked up just in time to see that the traffic had come to a full stop in front of me. I jammed on the brakes and just barely managed to stop before rear-ending the guy in front of me. I looked around to see whom I should thank for the warning honk. No one was paying any attention at all to me. My sense has always been that the sound of the horn was “other dimensional.”

  • Thanks, Chrissie!

    Sacred Stories

    She went swimming one day, and as she was looking at the clouds, she thought, “I should have asked Chrissie when she was alive, that once she passed, I would know what that sign might be.”

    So she thought, “Okay, Chrissie, just give me a sign, any sign.”

    As she was driving home, there was a huge rainbow in the sky…

    “Thanks, Chrissie!”

    rainbow michigan city lighthouse sept 2015

    How often we might have thought something was too late, then realized those who have passed on are right here with us.

  • Hope You Feel Better Soon

    Sacred Stories

    It was rainy, cold, and dark—exactly how she felt—when she saw the deflated helium balloon on the ground in the park. Her heart was filled with grief and disdain as she grabbed the trash and tossed it into the back seat of her car. She had made the long (out-of-state) trip back to the town where her husband had died one year earlier. What had she hoped to gain?

    Feeling totally alone, she drove toward home. She was startled by a noise in the back seat and, looking in the rear view mirror, near terrified as she saw a shadowy image behind her. Then she realized what it was; the balloon had been inflated by the warmth of the car heater.


    Eeyore Balloon

    Eeyore is a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. He is generally characterized as pessimistic, gloomy, and depressed. She knew her husband was there with her. She had not been abandoned. None of us ever are….

  • Visit from Spirit

    Sacred Stories

    Preparing to meet with a client, she noticed a card was in the wrong deck. These decks were not even on the same shelf. It seemed odd.

    When she later asked the client about any visits or messages from loved ones in spirit, the client said she would often know she had been visited by things being in a place they don’t belong.

    Telling of having found the card in the wrong deck, it was obviously a visit from spirit!

    What we have once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose,
    for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~ Helen Keller

  • He’s Back!

    She had just watched a bumble bee pollinate every flower in the flower pot, before the special black hummingbird showed up. (See August 1, 2015 Sacred Stories Hummingbird: He is All Around Me)

    He kept buzzing back and forth in front of her. Then he landed on the feeder and stared into their Mom’s window for the longest time.

    She’d not ever seen a hummingbird do that before. She knew it was her brother’s spirit visiting again.

    She said out loud, “He’s back.”

    She told their Mom about his visit, and they were both excited.

  • Young Buck

    Sacred Stories

    Her husband’s unofficial nickname was “Young Buck.” Before his children were fully grown, he died.

    Several years after his father’s death, their then young-adult son came home with an unusual t-shirt he had bought. It was a white collared shirt with a young buck partially hidden behind the pocket. She was sure it was her husband speaking to their son, even though he did not recognize the connection consciously.

    young buck

    Over a decade had passed, the night she wrote in her journal how she was missing him and how his spirit was not coming to her the way it had before. The following day, she spontaneously wore the young buck t-shirt to work.

    As she was driving home that evening, right in the middle of a residential area on a busy road, standing by the guard rail looking right at her, was a young buck still wearing his velvety antlers!

    As she looked in the rear view mirror to see the young buck cross safely to the other side, she said a prayer of gratitude because she knew she had just been visited by her husband!