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Repercussions and Moral Awareness

By Debra Basham, on January 6, 2021

We are all volunteers, come to awaken ourselves and all human beings. ~ Aaron

A pithy line from the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors in the Hebrew Old Testament has been working on my heart. The story is familiar to many: Joseph, the youngest son and his father’s favorite, was given […]

2021 – A True Spiritual Path

By Debra Basham, on December 31, 2020

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today December 31, 2020

So often beings have a limited view of spiritual life that creates a duality in themselves, so that they only see themselves as ‘being spiritual’ when they’re being kind and loving.

When painful emotions arise, then they think, ‘I am no longer being spiritual. I […]

Warp and Weft

By Debra Basham, on December 18, 2020

This post begins with a reprint of a Sacred Story published December 23, 2017: “Husband’s Clothes:”

As she stood in line at the grocery store the man in front of her looked so much like her late husband it almost took her breath away. The same height, the same built, even a similar style of […]

Two Wings of Mindfulness

By Debra Basham, on December 15, 2020

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today

If one never were to experience this dark night of the soul, one’s compassion really would be limited.

One may have a belief, ‘I can be compassionate with that which is light and beautiful and loving in myself and others’ but one has never tested it to see […]

What Else?

By Debra Basham, on December 10, 2020

One of the amazing gifts of wintering on Pine Island is the variety of plant life that flourishes in the sunshine and warmth of Southwestern Florida.

People (and plants) can be so very creative. People and plants can also be quite destructive.

This succulent was planted in the center of a landscape boulder and […]

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 […]

Grateful

By Debra Basham, on November 26, 2020

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, […]

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