by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 18, 2024 | Aging, growth
I tore through my teens, racing eagerly to do “life!” I trudged through my 20’s finishing college, getting married, having babies, starting a career…… all the things that “adulting” demanded and, at 29, believed I was a failure at...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 6, 2023 | counseling, growth
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” 1 Corinthians 13:11.. Jesus points to children as an example of the kind of faith, love, and trust for Father that he wants to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 15, 2022 | spiritual discipline, spiritual gifts, spiritual life
“The gifts of the Spirit are not meant to give us a short cut to maturity. One of the dangers in the Church is we expect the gifts of the Spirit to quickly do what only the fruit of the Spirit is meant to do slowly.” -Rich Villodas Strait: (of a place) of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 22, 2022 | 1 Corinthians 13, childhood memories
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” 1 Corinthians 13:11.. Jesus points to children as an example of the kind of faith, love, and trust for Father that he wants...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 29, 2015 | Emotional Literacy
A severe mercy? “Practically speaking, disillusionment is the loss of illusion. In terms of larceny, then, it is the equivalent of having one’s high cholesterol or a perpetually bad habit stolen. Disillusionment, while painful, is evidence which shows the myths...
