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Wholly Holy

By Debra Basham, on November 10, 2023

Friends accept that friends will feel out loud when they are ready. ~ She Recovers Every Day: Meditations for Women

Late yesterday afternoon I had a serendipitous treasure visiting with my dear friend, Jane Foster. Jane is navigating radiation therapy. The linear accelerator was being repaired so she had the day off from her […]

Changing Species: It is Our Nature

By Debra Basham, on November 6, 2023

A retreat coming to an end is always bitter sweet. Some aspect of it is relief to return to a “normal” schedule, but there is also a lingering longing for the better balance that seems to be the likely result of a time of intentional insight and successive sitting.

Catching up on email I […]

Perfect

By Debra Basham, on November 5, 2023

We gained an hour last night here in most of the United States. What an odd concept, that we can lose or gain time….

Gain and loss…. part of the Eight Worldly Winds. It is written that gain obsesses the mind, and loss obsesses the mind. We are attracted to gain and repelled by […]

What Do You Wish?

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 […]

SOAR

By Debra Basham, on November 3, 2023

When the loving heart simply asks, “How do we best find forgiveness in this situation?” and you take it into meditation and you ask for help, the help that comes is not spirit help versus your help; it’s simply love, one voice of love coming through whatever source it can come through. Let go of […]

Looking for the True Self

By Debra Basham, on October 26, 2023

Wow… I had a very unskillful time of things at the Jam last evening. When John and I arrived there were only two others there and one of the guys asked me to drum on the first and third beat only. He played a bit of a song he was going to do, and he […]

I Wish to Give My Share

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 […]

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 […]

An Experience of Grace

By Debra Basham, on September 12, 2023

Wowser, it has been a wonder-filled day. Six women were present for deep sharing following the 6:30 a.m. meditation. Three of those women I have known previously, two are new friends.

Right afterwards I scored a Royal Flush and earned a whopping 5,000 points on the poker machine in our guest bath. In the […]

The Same Blue Supermoon Shines in Every Back Yard

By Debra Basham, on September 1, 2023

The moon again provides a backdrop for the Yellow Brick Road (see my previous post, Waning Gibbous Moon).

A friend lives in Colorado where the skies are almost always clear. Each month he takes a photo of the full moon and sends it to me. (If you are not able to see the photo below, […]

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