Make the Chili

By Debra Basham, on September 27, 2023

I shared this story at St. John UCC a few days ago:

Make The Chili

A good friend of mine unexpectedly lost his wife. A couple months later we were golfing together, chatting about nothing. He asked what my dinner plans were and I told him wifey wanted my homemade chili and cornbread, but I […]

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It’s a Gift

By Debra Basham, on July 6, 2022

And I said to my body, softly, “I want to be your friend.”

It took a long breath. And replied, “I have been waiting my whole life for this.”

~ Nayyirah Waheed

Speaking about his book, All for Love: The Transformative Power of Holding Space, Matt Kahn shares,”I look back at these times and […]

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I Surrender

By Debra Basham, on January 18, 2022

Entry from my journal: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 @ 3:37 am:

Dear Holy Spirit,

I am awake and in the TV room listening to Karen Drucker’s “I Surrender.”

I will surrender to my greatest highest good.

I will release every fear that’s in my way…

and I am grateful every moment of […]

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The Time That is Given Us

By Debra Basham, on September 14, 2021

Three weeks ago today John and I were babysitting with Jackson, our 8-month-old great-grandson, while his mom worked (from G-Ma’s house).

That evening we got to see the barn on the property at Bradyville. Soooooo happy for Brad and Christina!

Three weeks feels like a lifetime.

John received the Monoclonal Antibody Therapy […]

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