by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 12, 2023 | Friendship
The movement from servant to friend. John 15:15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends. Up to this point it strikes me Jesus did not look at or consider his disciples as friends. They...
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 | Aug 13, 2022 | Friendship, God's attributes
Today I spent a couple of impromptu hours on an otherwise unscheduled Saturday at the home of a close friend….. We laughed about neither of us having a prior commitment and being free, it being such an uncommon experience in our frequently over-scheduled lives....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 30, 2022 | Faith, Friendship, grief, Holy Spirit
I have written before about the phenomenon of observing light in a person. The first time I witnessed it was in 1995. It was in an individual with terminal cancer with whom I had prayed for months about issues of unforgiveness. I had been under a heavy burden of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 31, 2022 | Friendship
I took lunch and visited with an 88-years-young friend of mine yesterday. We laughed and told stories for 2 hours. She showed me pictures from her youth…WOW! What a stunningly beautiful young woman! That doesn’t surprise me at all as she continues to be a...