About the Author
Cathy Boyd Byrd invites others to join her in considering topics of interest to those on the Christian spiritual journey…..discipleship, spirituality, mental health, Christian growth, and Bible study. Cathy enjoys working with others as they transition from emotional emergency and brokenness to spiritual emergence and abundant living! Many of the topics about which Cathy writes are interrelated as experienced in her own life and in the lives of those with whom she works in counseling, teaching, and case management, and in friendships. She believes that sharing our journey of Christian growth and spirituality helps us know God and ourselves better and connects us with others!
Cathy is a Christian Educator and Life Recovery Counselor, and an ordained deacon through Christian Leaders Institute. She serves as Community Outreach MInister at Lynn Haven United Methodist Church. She is a student (disciple) of the Holy Spirit and shares with her students (disciples) the things the Lord teaches her through Bible study and contemplation, incorporating experiences interpreted through the Word, cherished traditions of her faith, and reasoning that comes from seeking the mind of Christ in accountable community. She was widowed in August 2020 after 48 years of marriage to Bill Byrd, is mother of 2 and grandmother of 5. Her journey of faith has been lifelong and continues to be an adventure with the trailblazer and guide, Jesus Christ!
Cathy is the founder and program manager for a Christian women’s residential life recovery program, Titus 2 Partnership, Inc.(www.titus2.life) in Panama City, Florida.
In Response to “What Makes A Global Methodist A Global Methodist?”
This….. earnestly believed, clearly articulated, demonstrably practiced, generously shared…. is what I came to expect from, longed for and sought in the Wesleyan tradition of Christian practice to which I came as an adult in 1972 and which I found among some who understood and who held then and hold still now, wherever they choose to worship. CBB Dec ‘25 Thank you, Bishop Carolyn Moore for sharing! What makes a Global Methodist a Global Methodist? Kevin Butler nails it: A Global Methodist isn’t defined by branding or structure. It’s defined by identity a shared theological DNA and a lived...
New Traditions
The family Christmas Eve activity at our daughter’s house last night after a top-notch dinner of her homemade gumbo, spinach salad, and French bread was each person sharing a poem around the table. Tim shared a short AI generated Christmas poem. Brady shared a fun poem, “I Like Pie” styled somewhat in the Green-Eggs-And-Ham mode. I shared a poem about friends and being together from a book of poetry entitled “Same.” Charlotte had introduced me to it at Thanksgiving. Riley recited from memory Robert Browning’s “ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” And Charlotte shared a Christina Rosetti...
Titus 2 Ministry Activities December 2025
Titus 2 Ministry Activities December 2025 Completed Meals on Wheels monthly delivery to 13 households 12/3 Assisted young mother starting job with securing 3 required colors of collared style shirts from a clothes closet and provided a Walmart gift card to purchase required black non-slip shoes. 12/8 Provided Walmart gift card ($75) to woman in transitional living for personal items as she prepares for new job. 12/3/25 Provided 45 pairs of donated socks for One Mission Church to distribute at weekly homeless supper. 12/10 Laundered 3 loads of laundry from One Mission’s shower and clothes...
Time’s Illusions
Time is a strange thing when filtered through the lens of memory. “I had thought that Bill’s cousin, Dr. Bobby Echols, died on Thanksgiving weekend and that this Thanksgiving (2019) would be 2 years. Bobby’s sister, Debra Echols Turner, texted me this past week with a reminder that it was Labor Day Weekend- of last year, 2018! Barely a year. I was stunned. We’ve been through so much and so much was going on when we got news of Bobby’s sudden death. Since October 10th, 2018, (when H. Michael hit) until today time is more or less a blur.” (from November 2019. CBB) I came across the note above...
A Random Winter Saturday
What an utterly beautiful winter solstice weekend in the Heart of Dixie! I bought a new Burford Holly and planted it. (Not prickly!). And I planted a Peggy Martin Rose I’d bought around Thanksgiving and wove it into the garden arch. I refilled bird feeders and got a cute squirrel and hedgehog holiday seed feeder for the birds. I moved one feeder outside the fenced side yard because Simon spends time lying in the sun near the feeders there inside the fence. He’s too crippled to chase birds but they don’t seem to know that. The feeder outside the gate is a safe place away from the cats that...
Living The Kingdom
From 12/19/21. CBB A friend of mine died recently. Many knew him and those who knew him well knew him as a generous and kind person. Many people had stories of him coming to the aid of someone by providing for or making contact on someone's behalf to provide for a need. You probably know people like that. In your church, in your neighborhood, in your community. Such people are part of the Kingdom Economy of God. That is an altogether different way of living than the Contract Economy of the Culture. It is the economy by which Christan believers help take care of one another, first and...
Another Christian Year, Another Opportunity for Humankind
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,” replied the angel, “and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason he shall be called the Son of God.”Luke 1:35 This is the beauty and majesty of the Advent story and the angel’s Annunciation to Mary for us: Jesus said that one must come into the Kingdom of God as a little child…..He himself came into the world as a little child, bringing the kingdom of God with Him. He departed this realm, returning to heaven so that God’s Holy Spirit might come upon and dwell within us, as it did in Him. By His Holy Spirit we are born anew,...
Perspectives on Deliverance
I have been journeying alongside a young woman for about 7-8 years. I have some responsibility for her that arose out of her broken family history and having no one on whom to lean. She has developmental disability and some emotional and spiritual traumas. We’ve worked through a lot over the years, especially in emotional and spiritual literacy. But there is only so much that we can do given her limitations. The perverse, pervasive, and persistence of trauma in her young life has caused significant dissociative behavior, externalizing emotions and spiritualizing life to a degree that makes...
Reading the Signs
The is a post from December 2021, when I recognized the changing marketplace for addiction recovery as a result of “Obamacare.” I knew then it was time to consider future changes coming to my ministry. Now, with those changes behind me, I find myself just as busy, just as aware of the need for my ministry and far more relaxed in the doing of it than under the stress of the prior pattern in full time residential care. Titus 2 Partnership, Inc. Envisions the Future. CBB 12/6/21 We have available to our county several insurance-paid local 30-day in-patient substance abuse programs, a 60 day...
Get to the Source
"If we cared more about the source of a person’s pain than their reaction to it, we might have a better chance at speaking truth to the lies, light to the darkness, and Christ to the evil." Copied from an observed Twitter post.