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.
Whose Applause?
Seems to me we should aspire to be post-resurrection Peters regarding faith in Christ but Doubting Thomases regarding faith in man’s institutions—which means poking fingers in the sides of both liberals and conservatives. ……Be salt, not sugar. Report sensational facts with understated prose. Don’t suck your thumb: Pound the pavement. Strive for factual accuracy and Biblical objectivity. The heavens declare the glory of God, but the streets declare the sinfulness of man. Believe in a God who tells the truth and wants us to do the same. Don’t scream that the sky is falling: Remember that God...
Be A Friend To Have A Friend
A young woman I know wrote this poem. It was so poignant. I felt that pain in my 20s and 30s.I felt this great loneliness for many years then realized God was sending several people for whom I WAS to be that person. Problem was I didn’t WANT to be that person for them! I had to learn to be a friend. to the friendless before I could have that kind of friend. (CBB 11/12/19)
Myles Munro and Prayer
"The priority of Jesus was not ministry to men…." Myles Munroe, in speaking of Jesus' robust prayer life. His read on the story of the apostles attempting to cast out demons is very interesting. Why couldn't they do it? Not by shouting, not by using the name of Jesus, not by gyrations and ritual…but by prayer…..the apostles' prayer with God for their OWN strength, their own equipping, their own purity. Jesus prayed for hours in the morning with God, then spent a mere moment saying, "be healed"…. The power of humanity, the power of ministry lies in prayer. IF we spent time connected to God in...
A Hard Season
11/12/21: 8 years ago we had a difficult Holiday season My Dad had just died in August. My Mom was beside herself with grief. Our home remodeling had been underway since June and was taking far longer than projected. My locked chest with important belongings and my best jewelry was burglarized by a tile subcontractor who was eventually caught and prosecuted though my best jewelry and some cash in the chest was never recovered. Holidays can bring back memories of difficult seasons, but, thankfully God sees us through them and better seasons return. But other difficult seasons come and go...
Why “Titus 2” Ministry
I am asked from time to time where the name of Titus 2's ministry comes from……Here's the short story. Four women who have been involved in mentoring others were talking about the joy of sharing in the lives of younger women, either chronologically or spiritually, who are working to accomplish life recovery goals. I appreciate greatly the people who have sown encouragement snd wisdom into my life over the years and all who are sowing into the next generation of Christian women and me and fulfilling the biblical mandate given to us in the Apostle Paul's pastoral letter to his younger mentee,...
I Choose to Believe
"I see a gray-sky morning, but I know the sun is still shining and I believe a rainbow lies just over the horizon. I choose to live out of what I know and believe, not what I see.". CBByrd. 11/12/18
Battle in the Heavenlies
"Armageddon is only found one time, in the entirety, of the Bible. Yet it is one, of the most recognizable end time events known around the world. Today, the Valley of Armageddon looks nothing like it's violent past or its future. Today, it is a fertile agricultural valley, known as, the bread basket of Israel, which raises much of its own food. In the past, history has played out in this valley, serving as the site of the most battles in history. Making it arguably the bloodiest battlefield in world history. Because it had been the epicenter of armed conflict, throughout Israel's history,...
Dog Training
My little Bitsy Shih Tzu is so smart…she makes me laugh! I decided she and I would share a diced apple for breakfast, one of our usual travel treats. And I thought, “I’ll just start with the apple bits here at the kitchen table to give her the two syringes of cardio meds.” It’s our twice daily routine. We usually use chopped chicken or little bits of tortilla with peanut butter. When she realized I was trying to use apple bits to dose her meds she was not having it! She spit out the same apple bit 3 times, then refused to take it before I even tried to dose the meds. I started laughing and...
A Body of Work
A friend and I were talking about journaling, writing for one’s self and other readers, privately and publicly. She is a professional published writer. I’m just a Wordpress amateur blogger. I have no publishing ambitions, I’m just preserving thoughts for teaching others what I’ve learned. I started blogging in 2004 and it has mostly taken the place of my daily journaling. I have about 2500 entries in electronic blog media, 95% of it is original content of mine. Like my years of hardback bound journal pen and paper writing which began in 1990, my writing is mostly for myself… to process...
Perception Vs. Perspective
I was driving to our daughter’s new residence after a year of Covid isolation and realized I needed to refresh my memory of how to get there from I-65. The last time I’d been to their home, it had been by way of US Hwy 31 and State Route 280. So I called her to remind me of the exit and subsequent directions. She described the route – turn right at the first Oxmoor Rd. exit, go through the next couple of lights and curve slightly to the right as the road goes down a hill. You’ll bear left at the bottom of the hill and stay on that road until you get to the park. ...