by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 12, 2024 | heart, Quotes, Wisdom
CHOOSE HOW TO LIVE From 1/12/2017 “So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 1, 2023 | forgiveness, heart, justice, love, mercy
“Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. (Rule 2) There are a trillion things to pay attention to. Almost all of them are irrelevant. I would argue there’s no better use of time than understanding your own personality and the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 9, 2023 | boundaries, heart
Lord, teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them. Give me the spirit of the boy Samuel when he said to You, “Speak, for Your servant hears.” Let me hear You speaking in my...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 23, 2022 | conincidence, Faith, Hearing God's voice, heart
Each morning I stir awake, check the time projected in red digital numerals on my ceiling from the bedside clock, remind myself of what day it is, then reach for my phone to open the seedbed.com daily Wake Up Call devotional. Before Bill died our morning routine was...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 12, 2022 | Friendship, heart, loneliness
A much younger friend wrote this about 6-7 years ago ….I ached to think of her loneliness. I had felt this loneliness for many years when i was a young adult. Then, in my early middle years, I realized God was sending several people for whom I was to BE...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 21, 2022 | heart, mind, spiritual battle
from Joni Eareckson Tada: “Spiritual leprosy: It is when your soul becomes hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. It is when you spiritually lose all sensation of pain, especially things that pain God. It’s where you become actually dull and deadened to...
