by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 9, 2024 | books, reading, Wisdom
Reading Adam Grant’s 2021 book, “Think Again.”. The book is an “invitation to let go of knowledge and opinions that are no longer serving you well, and to anchor your sense of self in flexibility instead of consistency. If you can master the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 24, 2023 | Mental Health, Wisdom
By Kurt Vonnegut: (posted 12/21/2020 by Michael Busch) “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 19, 2023 | Teaching, work
One lesson learned during Hurricane Michael was the value of teamwork and process. Now we seem to be having to apply all of those lessons again in all this COVID 19 chaos. What that teamwork looks like depends on one’s own internal and external resources and the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 28, 2022 | redemption, scripture, spiritual life, witness
I love how God gradually reveals things about oneself, little tidbits of information and insights gleaned here and there over years, then one day just hits you with it: “This is you!” This morning I was meditating on His Word. Suddenly in my mind’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 17, 2022 | Wisdom
I gave a devo this morning on 2 prayers in the Psalms-88 & 86. I included something a pastor told me several times…”There are 2 prayers God always answers- for wisdom and for salvation.” As I reflected on his words this week, it seemed to me that...