by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 14, 2025 | spiritual growth, Teaching, Truth, work
I’ve been pondering “goodness” recently as part of exploring the topic in the Fruit of the Spirit. This article from October 14,2023, discusses hedonism vs. eudaemonism. Excerpted from an article by Matthew Little, “Hedonism Vs. True Happiness” in Epoch...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 14, 2025 | discipline, emotions, justice
I love it when women I’ve mentored in the past are thinking deeply and engaging with God’s Word. One texted to ask,“I’m reading a book on obedience , it references, Genesis Six . How can the Lord have regret?” My reply:“God is a person, with emotions…. Our capacity...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 13, 2025 | healing, Wellness
Wow! Just WOW! I happened up on an article about a man who suffered “erethism”, from effects of mercury poisoning, from removal of mercury amalgam dental fillings. Mercury is a heavy metal that’s found in the earth’s crust. It’s toxic to people, so even low levels of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
David Foster Wallace: “In his 1992 essay “E Unibus Pluram,” he calls this a “new vision of the USA as an atomized mass of self-conscious watchers and appearers.” Our Shared Reality Is About to Self-Destruct Instead of participating in a “community of relationships,”...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 13, 2025 | attributes of Christ, Comfort, Teaching
“God is speaking to the prophet Jeremiah and through him, to all people when He says, “Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know,” Jeremiah 33:3. The struggles that lead you closer to God are worth more than any...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 12, 2025 | Galatians 5:22, holiness, Teaching
Since 1988 I have been teaching, leading groups, and discipling women toward Christian transformational living and spiritual maturity in areas that we all experience as part of the human condition— brokenness, self- interest based moral ethic, and having lost...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 9, 2025 | Mental Health, mind, self care, self worth, spiritual growth, Teaching, Uncategorized
“My therapist told me something that hit harder than I expected: She said: “People-pleasing isn’t really about pleasing others. It’s about controlling their perception of you.” And then she looked at me and said: “It’s what happens when fear starts driving—fear of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 7, 2025 | Prayer, spiritual life, Teaching, Wisdom, witness
I heard a pastor say, somewhat dismissively? how he dislikes hearing people say, “I am with you in spirit!” He said we know that one’s human spirit cannot be in two places at once since to be “absent from the body is to be present with the Lord,” i.e., as in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 6, 2025 | Bible Study, Teaching, witness
Exposure-> Hear and see. Curiosity-> Ask and explore. Information-> Gather facts. Understanding-> Discuss and consider. Knowledge-> Owned understanding. Desire-> “Hunger and thirst.” Insights-> Human reasoning. Wisdom-> Godly illumination. Abiding-> Led by...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 30, 2025 | Ministry, self-awareness, spiritual formation, Teaching, Titus 2 Partnership, Twelve Step recovery
“Do you struggle with the distance between what you thought would be and what is? Disappointment is sometimes God‘s way of leading you home. It is not proof that God is withholding something good from you. Disappointment can be a gift from God that feels nothing like...
