Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: spirituality

  • Money Matters

    Sacred Stories

    They had incurred water damage to their home, but having elected to pay for more extensive replacement rather than simply repair, winter weather eventually had delayed the work.

    Finally they received an estimate for the additional improvement. They were to pay 50% upfront.

    Months had gone by without any contact from the insurance adjuster, but the day they were mailing the check to the contractor for the work, the insurance adjuster sent an email suggesting he go ahead and issue the check.

    The amount of their outgoing check was within dollars of the insurance settlement….

    The universe works in balance, even in money matters!

  • WooHOOT!

    Sacred Stories

    They are expecting their first baby at the end of the month.

    A girl!

    As they were falling asleep last night, an owl was hooting outside.

    About 30 minutes later, she woke up and the owl was still hooting. That had never happened before.

    Her thought, “OMG, she’s coming!” was quickly replaced with the realization their baby girl might just be saying hi.

    The name they have in mind for their precious baby daughter is symbolized by the owl…

    WooHOOT!

    Indigenous people have always acknowledged the connection of nature and spirit. Welcome Baby Girl!

  • Perfume Hanging in the Air

    Sacred Stories

    They inherited his mom’s house. Long after everything that belonged to her had been cleared out, a whiff of her perfume would hang in the air.

    They would smile and thank her for stopping by for a visit.

  • Cardinal

    Sacred Stories

    After his “Mum” passed, he thought of her every time he saw a cardinal.

    He remembered well the old folklore saying that, “When a cardinal appears in your yard, it’s a visitor from heaven.”

    Other animals are recognized as messengers too.

    Let me know if you have a story to share of how you have been visited by a loved one.

  • A Cat Named Walter

    Sacred Stories

    This was the first winter since her husband had passed. Although this winter, they would not be coming to Southwest Florida as snowbirds together, she traveled with some friends, and was staying with other friends.

    Accompanying her friends, she was surprised that they had a cat named Walter. Walter was her husband’s name.

    Not really a cat lover, she felt oddly comforted by the fact that Walter came and settled in right by her feet. There he stayed.

    At the end of the evening, as she was getting up to leave, Walter got tangled up in her purse straps.

    “Walter doesn’t want you to go shopping!” one of the good friends quipped. They all laughed.

    It is not every day you meet a cat named Walter….

  • Togo Africa

    Sacred Stories

    She was having breakfast with some friends who had been visiting, enjoying the lovely January morning in South Florida.

    They spoke deeply about their shared Peace Corps experience, of having served together in Togo—officially the Togolese Republic—one of the smallest countries in Africa.

    Her friends were heading out to the airport.

    As she stood up to leave, a couple who had also been enjoying the cafe’s small outdoor seating area, spoke up, “We did not intend to intrude on your conversation, but we could not help overhearing your having been in Togo, Africa.”

    “I will be right back. I would love to know how you know about Togo,” she assured them it was not an intrusion. She had rarely met anyone who even knew about Togo.

    She settled the bill and bid her friends farewell before coming back to sit and chat with the couple, who had also served in the Peace Corps in Togo!

    Our three-dimensional reality certainly has an amazing ability orchestrating place and time….

  • Scalar Energy Healing – It Can’t Hurt

    I attended an introduction to an energy healing process called scalar energy with developer Tom Paladino. Tom offers anyone who sends in a photo a 15-day free trial.

    Over the years, I have shared MANY experiences with healers and healing. What I like most about all of them is the fact: it cannot hurt. Western medicine certainly utilizes a lot of interventions with plenty of possible side effects.

    One key is to notice what you expect. Henry Ford is quoted as having said, “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.”

    When you have a sore knee, notice if you name it “arthritis.” Many of my readers have heard my story of Freedom from Pain.

    While it is true, not everyone will experience exactly what I have, it is good to always expect something good to come to you and/or your loved ones from whatever you decide what is right for you at this very moment.

    If you choose to take an antibiotic, do that in a healthy way, like the one I describe in this video.

    If you decide to sign up for the free 15-day trial, expect to notice improvement.

    It can’t hurt….

    P.S. Tom is trying to sell you a longer application. His is a transparent agenda: he hopes those in the world with the financial means will opt in to pay for his altruistic work with populations who are unable to pay and in need of healing of pathogenic disease, such as those in Africa with the HIV virus. As Tom says, “I want to heal the world.” I encouraged him to think bigger.

  • Who Are You Dancing With?


    Trust me,
    she knew who she was dancing with
    the entire time.
    She just chose to see the good in everybody.
    I personally do not think she should change
    that about herself.
    It is possible her energy could even bring out
    the best in the devil.
    ~ author unknown

    Each year I look forward to a spiritual ritual for the celebrating of my birthday. It is not for sissies, this incarnational experience.

    It can even be said we are a God Spark. Our true nature is the theme of a recent post, so just trust me about this: We come from God.

    Something is happening that calls for our most profound awareness and commitment: Those most dedicated to love and light are making themselves ill over the conditions in our world.

    In My Pores

    Gratitude seeps in my pores.
    I am thankful for the wooden plaque John made for me for Christmas: Not to spoil the ending, but everything is going to be OK.
    The truth hangs on the wall of our utility room. The most mundane of situations needs the most light to be seen clearly.
    All conditions are impermanent.
    As my fingers dance over the keys on the keyboard Alexa is playing John Denver songs for my listening pleasure: “Sunshine almost always makes me high….” the harmonica calls my soul upward toward the sun.
    Loving individuals unknowingly allow their egos to take over their hearts, losing joy and making themselves sick over the conditions in the world today.
    Perhaps my birthday wish is all humans can rewrite the ending of the Myth of Icarus.
    Son of the creator of the Labyrinth, Icarus was instructed to fly neither too low nor too high. Too close, the sun’s heat would melt his wings of feathers and wax. Too low, the sea’s dampness would clog his wings. Not heeding the warning to avoid the extremes, the former Icarus fell from the sky and drowned in the sea.
    It is said about grief that if one you love dies and you refuse to live, then two have died.
    We must not ignore or deny the conditions we see in the world. We must also not collapse into helplessness or hopelessness.
    Love is our true nature.
    “Love is the light that shines from heart to heart…” John Denver sings on. Is John Denver dead? His music isn’t.
    Are you alive? Does your music live?
    Seventy candles on my cake.
    I think I will make my cake a lemon pie, the juice squeezed from a lemon picked (better to ask forgiveness than permission) from a tree where succulent fruit is left to fall to the ground and rot.
    Let not the light of our eternal love lay wasted by lamenting conditions which are impermanent.

    Gratitude is in our pores.

    All conditions are impermanent…

    Sheilana Massey invited those gathered for meditation for world peace to consider that every expression of the Divine has a right to be. The darkness and the light. The pleasant and the unpleasant. The old and the young.

    As Betty Lue Leiber’s Loving Reminder for January 15, 2020 said, the only mistake we ever make is when we forget to Love.

    I look at the crepey skin on my arms, and the brown spots on my hands. I ponder what the next decade will bring in our world. I choose to let my light shine.

  • Blood Relatives

    Sacred Stories

    Following his mother’s death, the man who had been his “father” as he was growing up told him he was not his real father.

    Soon, he was also told who his biological father was.

    And he discovered that he had siblings!

    Making contact with those folks, he learned his father and siblings knew about him.

    For years, he had been greeted with a big smile and warm words by the woman who worked at the hospital. That woman was his half-sister.

    In fact, when he had a grand opening of his restaurant, his father and sister had come.

    While he had just lost his mother, he had also received the gift of a larger family.

    The events of our lives might not always be simple, but Divine LOVE is within everything…

  • Screech Owl

    Sacred Stories

    He was awakened from a deep sleep by a very loud screeching sound. He opened the front door and looked out.

    An Eastern Screech Owl was perched on a branch, screeching!

    Owls were messengers, telling of a death. He “knew” immediately his mother had died.

    The following morning he drove to his parent’s home. Walking in the door, his father said, “Your mother is dead.”

    “I know,” he replied.

    “How do you know?” his dad asked.

    “A little bird told me,” popped out of his mouth.

    Pay attention. Nature is one of the ways we receive information.