by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 13, 2026 | Assurance of faith, redemption, spiritual journey
I pray all is well with you FL folks. My church in Montgomery sent a work team yesterday. Not sure exactly where they are serving. I remember so well the faithful response of so many who came to our aid in PC 8 years ago after Hurricane Michael…meals served in church...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 12, 2026 | redemption, spiritual journey, story, witness
6/12/26. CBB The following is a recent messenger conversation over several months with a gentleman who had been in his 40’s when he came to Panama City around 2011-12 to a men’s recovery program with whom Bill and I had some contact. He did some small...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 13, 2026 | spiritual life, Suffering, Teaching, Trust
I get weary of the notion that suffering is preparation for some grand purpose, i.e., as in using Joseph’s story of betrayal, being sold into slavery, victimized by deceitfulness, and left forgotten in prison to becoming #2 leader in Egypt and saving the world from...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 2, 2026 | love, Quotes, redemption
C.S. Lewis described God’s Word saying, “It is a very long story, with a complicated plot. And we are not, perhaps, very attentive readers.” “From Genesis to Revelation a single historical narrative unfolds. That plot though often remains unclear...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 31, 2026 | God's will, redemption, Uncategorized
From 2016: God often “flips the script”…..As Jacob’s son Joseph told his jealous and deceitful brothers many years after their betrayal of him, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good” Genesis 50:20a. No matter that one may...
