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.
Halloween Reflection
Bitsy had a thoroughly good time last night announcing visitors and running to the door to greet them. We handed out candy to about a dozen family groups, enjoying their costumes, chatting with parents, etc. It was a beautiful evening for a family outing and everyone seemed relaxed and happy. Several children responded with genuine delight when they saw the large bowl full of assorted chocolates and were each given a handful of pieces. I’m not a big Halloween fan when it involves horror movies, macabre themes, and mischief or malicious, destructive behavior. But considering that the Jewish...
All “Love” Is Not the Love to Which Followers of Christ Are Called
For those who say, “Love is love…”. No. God is love and God has called us to love as He loves. Deuteronomy says, “…. And love your neighbor as yourself.” That’s all well and good as a starting point for a people who know, love, and obey God. However, loving others as yourself leaves a path a mile wide to follow the desires of one’s own heart instead, ignoring God’s own love and desires for His own. It has now become even as it was in the days of Judges 20:25, “In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.” Jesus gave a more highly refined, narrower definition of “love”, one...
Across Time and Space
One would have to know my history with astronomical bodies to appreciate this information shared below on Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” masterpiece. It began in February 1972, on an evening as I was escorted down the steps of my dorm at Auburn University to attend a get-acquainted mixer at Dean Cater Social Center for sweetheart candidates for Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity. I was Delta Zeta’s candidate. As my escort and I walked, my eye caught sight of a shooting star. It stirred a sense of anticipation, an omen for something propitious that made me smile. It was the night I met Bill Byrd....
”Welcome to the Banquet”
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 parking lots, cleaning supplies offered- and used alongside us- by those who brought them. My heart aches for those putting pieces of their lives back together now. But God is in the midst of even this…. This morning as I awoke a phrase sat heavy in my mind…..“Spirit led is Spirit fed.” My immediate response to that thought was...
Explore Holy Spirit Stories at Seedbed.com
“Holy Spirit Stories” is a new Saturday feature from the Wake Up Call with JD Walt at Seedbed.com sharing true stories of ordinary people partnering with the Holy Spirit in everyday life. Each story is an invitation to listen for God's voice, step out in faith, and discover how Jesus still works through His people today. Have a Holy Spirit story of your own? We'd love to hear it. Share it at seedbed.com/holyspiritsstories. What's one way you've seen God at work in your everyday life? 👇 #HolySpiritStories #WakeUpCall #KingdomCome #EverydayFaith #Seedbed #HolySpirit 📩 Get the Wake-Up Call in...
An Invitation To WAKE UP!
This is your introduction and invitation to the WAKE UP CALL from seedbed.com, with JD Walt and friends. It is an online devotional, and offers an international community of Christ followers that has fed me and many others for years. Join us! Visit the Facebook community at “Wake Up Call With JD Walt” https://seedbed.com/rom-an-invitation-to-wake-up/
Titus 2 Ministry Report- September 2026
- Gift of $25 to Lorraine’s Bake Shop, 22 Dexter Ave., Montgomety, to support “Pay It Forward” fund for mission neighbors in downtown area to be given coffee or food item, when needed, particularly during inclement weather. (9/5) - Transported life recovery client to out of town court hearing to clear drivers’ license for reinstatement. (9/1) Transported to ALEA to secure reinstatement letter (9/4) - Transported expectant mom and 3 children to out of town auto sales company to receive a freely donated, refurbished van that is part of the company’s “kingdom”...
Apocalypse Now
I see posts expressing mixed emotions of angst and eagerness over what some view as Revelation’s end-time seeming to be playing out in the world today. I just am not an apocalypse speculator, neither afraid, nor eager. I just take each day as it comes, trusting God with it, as well as each tomorrow. When I think of God’s destruction of the evil and broken world of Noah’s day with the flood and God’s promise not to destroy it again with water, it occurs to me that the point then was to destroy evil. Surely, there was a lot of collateral death of animals and innocent (though not righteous)...
“….to accept these unlikely stones and to make of them building blocks of a worthy life edifice.”
There was a day when I did not recognize a pharmacy charge on my credit card from a pharmacy I had not used in over a year, since a move to a different neighborhood. It took a bit of effort to track down the particular store and, once identified, it turned out my card had actually been used at least a half dozen times in the last year, all by the same person, from the same pharmacy. Since it was not local to my town, I thought about who I knew from that community and I was able to identify the user, although the pharmacy would not confirm an identity and advised me only to call the sheriff’s...
Sign
8:28am CDT, 9/11/26. Frank Siller was talking in an interview on Fox News on Sirius Radio about losing his brother in the fall of the first tower. He was saying that the current steel beam traveling memorial display, presently in NY, is attracting lots of viewers. Many lay their hands on it and say a prayer. Immediately after he said that I was looking at the growing sky of dark clouds over Bay County as I drove to Panama City. I saw to my left, in the SE sky at the 10 o’clock position, the clear form of a large right hand in the clouds with detailed columns of “fingers”, a palm and thumb....