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.
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,...
Titus 2 Ministry Evolves
In addition to volunteer case management with residents at Mary Ellen’s Place (M.E.P.) and benevolence request case management with 3 churches, I am now privileged to be volunteering about 10 hours a week in life recovery counseling and case management with clients at Medical Outreach Mission (M.O.M.) in Montgomery, a medical foundation-funded non-profit clinic for individuals with no other resources for primary and specialty care services in our area. I’m working 2 extended-appointment cases, 1.5 hrs. each, 3 days a week. What a blessing to engage with individuals about holistic strategies...
Affective Ministry: Touching Lives
I watched a video recap of the 2025 Summit by CCPL (Center for Christianity and Public Life) where our middle granddaughter is now employed, having transitioned from 9 years of working as a reporter and editor with several news organizations in D.C. covering the U.S. Congress. In the video one statement stood out to me: “Our ethics are not only to be effective, but also to be affective, to be relational.” This resonates with me. As a type A ‘doer,’ I can often get so focused on the goal, the destination, the outcome, that I overlook the miraculous daily ways of God working among people along...
As God Would Have It……
Two weeks ago Titus 2 was given part of the contents of a home and 2 sheds recently when the family of a mom who had died 5 years ago decided to sell the property that is in a rural area. There were quite a few vintage items among the donated treasures. Many would be sold by Titus 2 because of limited need for them among our clients. One item was a bag of realistic looking 1970’s era clusters of rubber grapes, some red, some green. I took photos and posted them to marketplace. Surprisingly, a woman here in Alabama happened to be scouring the internet for artificial grapes for a women’s...