by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 6, 2022 | self-awareness, serenity, sleep
…”forces of culture insist we give up an hour of sleep here, or two hours there—the grinding schedules, the unnerving stock piles of e-mail in need of responses, the early-taught/early-learned push for more and more productivity.” Thus, author and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 5, 2021 | promises, serenity
From 2015 notes from Titus 2 “I had something in mind that I wanted to get for a Titus student and her daughter. She had expressed a desire for this particular thing. And while it was not particularly expensive or an unreasonable request for one moving into a home,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 25, 2021 | Bible Study, serenity
“Behold!” With each step of Jesus’ life and ministry described in scripture we are given revelations of the truth of who he is through the eyes of first one person after another – Mary and Joseph, shepherds and Magi, Simeon and Anna, John the Baptist, satan (in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 11, 2018 | serenity
The plague of our modern day age is anxiety…..Many people are medicated for anxiety as a way to give them a little peace in a stress filled world. Or they self-medicate with alcohol or food or overwork or other excessive behaviors. The opposite of anxiety is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 26, 2007 | serenity
O God and Heavenly Father,Grant to us the serenity of mind to accept that which cannot be changed; the courage to change that which can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. Reinhold NiebuhrAlthough the prayer...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 24, 2007 | acceptance, counseling, serenity
The more I study various psychology theories and therapies, the more I am inclined toward William Glasser’s Reality Therapy/Choice Theory and Albert Ellis’ Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), also known simply as Cognitive Behavior Theory (CBT). I...
