By Debra Basham, on February 26, 2024 Early Saturday morning I woke up dreaming. I knew the symbols were significant so by the light of the digital watch I keep on the nightstand I wrote in my journal:
Dream
Am sliding head-first down a piece of card stock to show a friend she can “trust your own story/writing….”
My scribbled note […]
By Debra Basham, on December 14, 2023 This morning’s Gratefulness.org message by John A. Powell is so perfect as follow up to my having gotten triggered yesterday: “When people’s stories are recognized, it does something. It creates a possibility.”
As so often happens, the Daily Reflection from Deep Spring also spoke so well to this.
Think of somebody in your […]
By Debra Basham, on December 7, 2023 I listened to the first 20 minutes of a talk by Mosab Hassan Yousef. A dear friend (who happens to be Jewish) sent me a link to the talk on Youtube. “‘Son of Hamas’ Tackles University Antisemitism, Exposes Hamas ‘Holy War’ to Wipe Out Jews” was given at University of Michigan last week.
Opening […]
By Debra Basham, on November 4, 2023 Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. ~ Simone Weil
This morning I did laundry rather than go to the community room to ride the stationary bike because I am currently starting a […]
By Debra Basham, on October 8, 2023 Today’s “Word for the Day” from Gratefulness.org is by renowned poet and author, David Whyte: Being unappreciative might mean we are simply not paying attention.
I have shared previously that we have been on an accelerated path with my nephew. He has now signed a lease, paid his first month’s rent, and this David and […]
By Debra Basham, on July 12, 2023 How do we see the world as sacred again? By radical noticing. Looking for awe in all of life.
~ Lucy Jones posted on Gratefulness.org July 12, 2023
Yesterday riding my bike I was inundated by awareness of the propensity to criticism. John’s clothes, the way someone says something, the decadent use of disposable bottles […]
By Debra Basham, on April 17, 2023 We wake up to snow flurries this morning…. so grateful one week ago today we arrived home in Michigan in gorgeous sunshine. We had beautiful warm, sunny days all week. Until yesterday…. and now snow today. But the birds still sing!
Yesterday John and I went to St. John UCC in New Buffalo where I […]
By Debra Basham, on August 3, 2022 WORD FOR THE DAY
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
~ James Baldwin (Gratefulness.org)
Group 2 sharing last evening was active with exploring the question of the value of being ordained (in Buddhism). This was not so much an intellectual discussion, but a […]
By Debra Basham, on June 15, 2022 Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God puts it this way: Life works out in the process of Life Itself. All you have to do is trust that it will, and allow it to.
My blood pressure was 126/80 at the doctor’s office on Monday afternoon. I reported that I am doing deep work with […]
By Debra Basham, on June 5, 2022 From my journal:
Friday, June 3, 2022
Dear Holy Spirit,
I am listening to a podcast by Ram Dass. (Ep. 199: The Continuity of Consciousness)
“Somewhere between not enough and more seems to be enough.”
At least a few moments go by before i have a thought about Joel — that’s progress. I have […]
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