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.
The Place Where Miracles Don’t Happen – JD Walt Wake Up Call 7/17/26. KEEPER!
READ ALL OF MARK CHAPTER 6.Mark 6:1–6 NIVJesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.“Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town,...
Titus 2 Ministry Report-July 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. - Gift of $50 for family support of young woman in prison to allow regular phone calls to family - Assisted with July 4th party for Mary Ellen’s Place (MEP) residents…in addition to holiday paper goods, provided 2 homebaked cakes, ice cream, watermelon slices, potato casserole, lemonade, tea, ice. - Delivered a box of donated gift items from Christ...
Thoughts on Matthew 10
In Matthew 10 Jesus sends his disciples out, to become “the sent ones”, the “apostles.” He gives them: 1- authority for the work to be done2- defines the work they will have responsibility for and to whom they are to go and what they are to do3- specific guidelines for how they are to do it4- how they will determine the households that are “worthy”, those on whom they are to focus and on whom they may trust for hospitality, receptivity, welcome, and generous spirit5- what to do when a household proves “unworthy”, i.e., resistance to, taking advantage of, mocking spirit6- how to separate...
Beauty, Bounty, Blessings
Seek, ask for, and cultivate the awareness of God at work around you each day. It can revolutionize how you see life! One of the things Henry Blackaby emphasized in “Experiencing God” was to lookvforcwsys in which God is at work and join Him! How do we find how God is at work around us. It is by awakening to intentionality and alertness to beauty, bounty, and blessings. Those three thongs will accompany the glory of God where His Presence and Purpose are evident! Thanks to Rev. Misty Barrett of Christ /Methodist Church-Montgomery for that insight. That thought is present in this wuote from...
Safety and Significance: Toward Change
This is so true! Two basic longings drive much of what we do…. safety and significance. CBB 6/30/26 Chuck Degroat writes in Substack: “Years ago, I discovered a surprising foundation for the kind of deep character change we long for—an essential for real transformation. But let’s start here: If I asked you how deep change happens, how would you respond? I’ve asked this at retreats, in churches, in seminary classes, with clients, and more. And what I hear are words like effort, discipline, accountability, suffering, or better spiritual practices. In other words, I just need...
Working Through Anxiety
Life Recovery counseling should have a tapering frequency and an endpoint at which significant progress over life-limiting fears and other obstacles has been achieved and new skills, competencies, and knowledge have been established. If life long rehashing of or experience of the same issues and medication to control symptoms are required, one might question the therapeutic value. A woman and I have been working through a very difficult transition for her for 2 months. It has brought significant anxiety rooted in fear over uncertain finances, many new responsibilities and new systems to...
Leah Seasons
”Did you know Jacob was buried with Leah, not Rachel?Not the woman he loved.Not the one he cried for.Not the one he labored fourteen years to have.Leah.In Genesis 49:29–31, when Jacob was about to die, he gave a clear instruction:“Bury me… in the cave… where Abraham and Sarah are… Isaac and Rebekah… and there I buried Leah.”Pause.Rachel was his passion.Leah was his alignment.Rachel was the love story.Leah was the covenant story.Rachel had his emotions.Leah carried the promise.Rachel was buried on the roadside (Genesis 35:19).Leah was laid in the ancestral grave of...
Changed By Grace
I knew the Wallace family from my family’s hometown. I visited Lurleen and children with our 4th grade girl scouts and Daddy and I went to see him in his final years before his death in Montgomery. He did suffer in this life but found peace. CBB. 7/16/26 “In June 1963, Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in the sweltering heat at the entrance of the University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium, flanked by state troopers in a carefully staged piece of political theater. Billed as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door," this public blockade was designed to fulfill a campaign promise to protect...
Life Is A Train
A little lift this morning…….As I sit in my sunroom , some quiet times I can hear the trains in north Montgomery, just as I could hear the Bay Line trains leaving Panama City parallel to Hwy 231 from my sunroom on Deerpoint Lake, and the train passing through the heart of Shellman, Ga a block from our home as a child, where the train crewman on the caboose threw candy out to. children watching along the way. CBB 7/15/26 https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1brDobseuS/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Pouring Out Your Pain To God
SAY THAT AGAIN FOR THE ONES IN THE BACK….. “Pouring out your pain to God, brings the wound into the presence of God. Biblical confession is not faith in your confession. It is faith in Christ expressed through confession. Your confession brings your heart and mouth under His authority and you are enthroning the truth in your own hearing.” It actually brings my knowledge of and distress over the wound into the presence of God. He already knows it’s there. To be healed, I need to see and seek help for the wound, not deny, cry over, suppress or stoically endure the woundedness….. Jesus says,...