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.
No Chocolate milk and Cliff Notes
From 1/4/22. CBB “it was a gradual process as God led me to His purpose for my life….to teach and open up the Word of God for others …. to challenge and invite them into a deeper contemplative life in Christ. It seems that many want short, quick, easy to understand mini-inspirations….. to be given life’s cliff notes. At Titus 2's ministry discipling women we can regularly have long discussions- 2 hours or more- covering principles in God’s Word and applying them to our lives. Institutional church and religious habit train us to expect 20 minute, 3 point devotional sermons that focus on 1 or...
Wisdom Is Timeless….
President Carter’s Death
from 1/3/2025….. Remembering President Jimmy Carter Present Jimmy Carter, of Plains, Ga., near where I grew up was described today this way: “summation of the man: “disciplined, funny, enormously intelligent, and deeply spiritual.” Not a bad epitaph. 1/22/25 My brother, Dan Boyd, from Plains, Ga, wrote on his FB page about his personal experience with President Jimmy Carter: “A few years ago, I was helping build an irrigation pond on president Carter’s property. During this time, I got to know him better as he would come out every day to look at our progress. At the end of the construction,...
When God Starts Closing The Case
“If any one tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”— Epictetus. (Thank you, Nicola Gibson. This quote lines up with something else God just put before my eyes!) THIS: “You have not yet acquired perfect love if your regard for people is still swayed by their character.”— St. Maximus the Confessor Somehow the two of these bring to mind….. Matthew 7:3-5 “3 Why do you see the splinter that’s in your brother’s or sister’s eye, but don’t notice the...
Anonymous Servant of God
“Can you serve the Lord in ministry and be content simply with whatever praise comes from Him? There is a woman, a prophetess of God who did. God chose not to reveal her personal name. She was known only as, wife of Isaiah, Isaiah 8:3. Her mention is brief but significant and an important lesson for everyone because the opportunity to serve the Lord in any capacity is not an opportunity for promoting one’s self as being powerful or important. Pride disqualifies anyone who seeks positions of authority, 1 Timothy 3:6. Isaiah’s wife was a nameless, prophetess...
Christmas Memory With Bill
1/2/17 CBB When dismantling all the "Christmas" around our house, I generally wind up forgetting one or more small things tucked away here or there. Tonight I realized I had three little glass trees in the hutch in the kitchen. I was picking them up when Bill walked by and said, "You don't have to put all the Christmas stuff away." I said, "Why not?" He replied, "Cause it's Christmas everyday!" He's carrying the spirit of Christmas forward through Epiphany and beyond!
Why Teach Emotional Literacy?
Why we include emotional literacy, values education, sharing our lives as well as our testimony, and the importance of interdependent living at Titus 2: CBB 1/2/20 The Most Private is Often What Resonates the Strongest The pyschologist Carl Rogers, a person who would know quite well the interior lives of others, has this to say of our inmost thoughts:I have most invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal and hence, most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many people. It has led me to...
Where Heaven Meets Earth
As we seek God, at the border of the Holy we are invited to commune with our Creator, glimpsing His realm, where we are received with joy and loving-kindness that is beyond anything that can be known in this realm! 12/31/21 CBB Screenshot
Cosmic Revelations A-coming
CBB. 1/2/23 A year ago, after the Webb Space Telescope launch, I wrote this based on multiple news reports….. "NASA has hired a team of theologians, led by Reverend Dr. Andrew Davison, to guide humankind through potential worldview-shattering information that might come to light as a result of exploration of the cosmos by the new John Webb telescope that launched in December….it is 100x more powerful than Hubble and is already giving new glimpses into mysteries of the universe. "The “most significant question” Davison is trying to answer is how theologians might react to the notion “of there...
A BLESSING FOR THE NEW YEAR
Daily Blessing….. Susie Larson. 1/2/23 "May you learn how to walk in the authority Christ has entrusted to you. May you speak PEACE to your soul and PERFECT LOVE to your fears. May you refuse discouragement simply because courage fits you better. May you walk with those who bring out the best in you. May you love those who cannot return the favor. May you return to your First Love, time and time again. Jesus is your Source, He’s your Strength, He’s your Fortress, and He’s Your King. You lack no good thing because you have Him. Walk like it’s true today." Psalm 23:1 BSB ~ The LORD is my...