by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 21, 2026 | Cultural Issues, emotions, self-awareness, spiritual life, transparency
I don’t expect anyone to help me back…..but it does make me wonder when someone I’m helping thinks it’s okay to play me and other Christians for fools……. take and take and take, all the while lying and faking how well they are doing while betraying me and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 19, 2026 | acceptance, action, self examination, self-awareness, self-discovery
A beautiful thought that seems to speak to the experience several women have had recently in completing their 4th and 5th Steps of their 12 Step Program….. “Healing is possible when we allow ourselves the gift of wandering in the spaces of our hearts, taking in...
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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 23, 2025 | redemption, sanctification, scripture, self-awareness, spiritual formation, spiritual growth, Uncategorized
“God will allow the layers you depended on to fall away, so that all that is left is pure trust; no props, no pretense. Whatever is a distraction He will remove. Connections that jeopardize your integrity, He will remove. He will cause a “divine stripping” to clear...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 5, 2023 | Cultural Issues, folk religion, self-awareness
I had previously explored the cultural deception revealed through common use of language that would have one think of herself as primarily identifying with the physical self in the physical realm Not So Little Things…. and the need to think biblically instead of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 25, 2022 | addiction, self-awareness
“Functional religion is the essence of idolatry whereby people try to get God in their debt. Not only is this false religion but it generates all manner of false gods leading to the flourishing of hypocrisy and the harming of people. “. JD Walt, Wake-Up...
