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What Remains is Enough

By Debra Basham, on December 3, 2020

There’s going to be pain that feels overwhelming. There are going to be situations that come up where we just suddenly freeze up and say, “I don’t know how to do this.”

~ Barbara Brodsky

This is certainly a time of accepting what is and knowing that what is, is enough. The current version […]

Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

WORD […]

Mindful Gap

By Debra Basham, on November 23, 2020

Joy to forgive and joy to be forgiven hang level in the balances of love.

~ Richard Garnett

Last evening after our Zoom dominoes game ended, Linda asked us when we are planning to head south. One of the realities of the pandemic: It is difficult to plan.

The one thing we have put […]

The Last Page

By Debra Basham, on November 22, 2020

Every day we pray for the willingness to make sane choices about our lives.

~ from the book Answers in the Heart

We will be having left-over Thanksgiving for dinner tonight. Last evening, John and I shared the traditional fare with Janis and Larry!

We bought the turkey. She roasted it. She made deviled eggs […]

“Keeping Quiet”

By Debra Basham, on November 17, 2020

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today

When you stay in the relative reality box, you create the kind of fights with each other, ‘I’m right.’ ‘No, I’m right.’ ‘No, I’m right.’ You can’t hear each other. You become more and more polarized. And this of course is consonant with the lower stages of consciousness, […]

New Hope Retreat

By Debra Basham, on November 15, 2020

I am back in the tiny house. It was such a gift going on retreat. Being in Carol’s Cozy Cottage felt so much like Still Waters, where my soul has been nurtured for decades.

While on retreat, a dharma sister shared a powerful poem she saw in a post by a Chicago Cognitive Behavior […]

Pay Attention

By Debra Basham, on November 12, 2020

Elizabeth Lesser wrote a New York Times bestselling book, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow (Random House). That book has sold more than 300,000 copies and has been translated into 20 languages. Lesser says, “When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a […]

Be-Causal

By Debra Basham, on November 11, 2020

Nature does not preserve species, nature preserves purpose. ~ Barbara Marx Hubbard

When Barbara was preparing to move to New York City in pursuit of her life’s calling as a futurist, she asked her 9 year-old son, Wade, if he was willing to go with her. In his wisdom and love, Wade responded, “Mom, you’re […]

Winds of Change

By Debra Basham, on November 10, 2020

Ride the winds of change, unafraid.

~ Larry Ward

A friend mentioned Russell Boulding’s Earth Energy Healing work last Thursday and I finally got around to checking his website out. Russell says this of himself: “All of my life I have been inclined towards a left-brain rational approach to thought and action. I have a […]

See Every Event as an Opportunity

By Debra Basham, on November 9, 2020

This morning I enjoyed listening to Linda Beushaushen Gunter’s sermon, “Life’s Story.” She told the first “version” of her life and then, reporting on the exact same history, another “version.” The first story focused through the lens of things being unfair, difficult, painful. The second told of the same events, but without all of the […]

Yellow Brick Road: Your Path to Heart & Health

What Remains is Enough

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