by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 30, 2025 | Ministry, Teaching, Titus 2 Partnership, Twelve Step recovery
“Do you struggle with the distance between what you thought would be and what is? Disappointment is sometimes God‘s way of leading you home. It is not proof that God is withholding something good from you. Disappointment can be a gift from God that feels nothing like...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 30, 2025 | Ministry, Titus 2 Partnership
Made referral to local church resources to secure apartment furnishings for agency and individuals working with a homeless older female with disability in Florida. Taught 2 sessions of 4 classes at three recovery programs- Sept. 4-5 and Sept. 25-26. Hope Inspired...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 30, 2025 | attributes of Christ, Bible Study, Teaching
“In John’s gospel, Jesus says 7 “I am” statements about his unique identity. I am the bread of lifeI am the light of the worldI am the doorI am the good shepherdI am the resurrection and the lifeI am the way, the truth, & the lifeI am the true...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2025 | grief, healing
Here are seven helpful tips to process grief: 1. It’s important to acknowledge and honor your feelings, even if you can’t fully feel them. Avoiding or suppressing emotions can cause more harm than good. 2. Move your body and get outside. Shift your focus from...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2025 | books, change, community, culture, free speech, generations, healing, leadership, religious movements, Spiritual abuse, spiritual growth, Spirituality, Teaching, Uncategorized
“The human condition is not one of problem solving, of wanting to know better in order, then, to do better, but rather, to be human is to not to see that which is right in front of you.” Anne Kennedy, Demotivations, at Substack, on the horror of Nigerian genocide of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
CBByrd 9/27/25 In a 2022 devotional from seedbed.com JD Walt asked had we considered that the church has no “doctrine of love” and wouldn’t it be a good thing to have? I contemplated his question for several days before he got back to it later in a devotional in which...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 23, 2025 | Prayer, Purpose, redemption, social gospel, Spiritual abuse, spiritual battle, spiritual journey, Teaching, timing, witness, Worldview, woundedness, writing
“You were created to be a difference maker, making significant differences in the world. God is the source of your power, abilities, opportunities and even the desire to do good works. Philippians 2:13 states, “For It is God who works in you both to will...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 21, 2025 | Gratitude, grief, healing, heart, pets, Uncategorized
In early August, I observed a small umbilical hernia in my little Shih Tzu dog, Bitsy. The next week I had to go to Birmingham and I sent her to doggie daycare at our veterinarian’s office and asked them to check it. When I picked her up I talked to the doctor. She...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Jesus ministered to all – sinner and saved alike- everywhere he went. He fellowshipped with the disciples who were with him most of the time for 3 years. But he enjoyed close community with Peter, James and John They went places others didn’t and he showed...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 19, 2025 | self care, spiritual growth, Trust
WORDS OF WISDOM”The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”ERNEST HEMINGWAY I was very much one whose default mode was to trust others for many years. What made me a skeptic about trusting people for a few years was having some...
