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.
Red Thread of Redemption Through Generations
I’m in a small group of women who have been engaged in a summer of encouragement devotional reading. It has included a very good couple of weeks of daily readings on Gideon. As I was reflecting on Gideon this is something that I recognized from his story and many other stories of unexpected heroes used byGideon- a weak man from a small clan in the tribe of Manasseh who was a son of Joseph. Although Manasseh was born of a foreign mother in a foreign land he and his brother Ephraim were “adopted” by the patriarch Jacob into the family of God’s people in full standing with the other brothers’...
Judge Only When You’re Fully Informed- I Fear No Judge or Jury
Unless you’re going to read to the end, skip this post. The following is a surprising post I saw 7/20/25: 7/20/25 CBB Immigration law and activities continue to stay in every news report. You can’t seem to avoid the controversy. Wow! Just today I saw this post above. Mexico apparently knows how to enforce a border, which begs the question, how much was Mexico paid to let all the Central and South American individuals traverse Mexico? Or were they all perfectly documented and legal visitors in Mexico, or escorted the whole way by courteous assistance? Curious minds wonder how that all...
Visioning Prayer Practice
in a prayer workshop in February 2024 we were given a visioning prayer assignment in response to the way in which we felt God guiding us after the workshop. We were told to make a list of 3-4 obstacles and 3-4 opportunities arising from our sense of God’s leading. I knew immediately what the obstacles were for me- feeling the need for additional training or certification which felt onerous and undesirable, as well as the opinions of others in response to what I felt God was preparing me for. The opportunity seemed clear, as well… to sit face to face in intimate Holy Conversations with...
Hospitality or Discipleship?
The sermon at my church today focused on the difference between hospitality and discipleship from Luke 10:38-42, about the actions of Martha and Mary during a visit by Jesus… take-aways I noted: 1.) Jesus was invited to dinner in their home. 2.) Martha sought to leverage influence of Jesus to coerce her sister into helping her with meal preparation, implying also Jesus’ lack of concern for her work. 3.) Jesus rejected Martha’s attempt at leveraging Him with a firm response and clear boundary. 4.) Jesus affirmed Mary’s choice to sit at His feet to listen and learn. 5.) Since Mary’s response...
Deliverance or Deficiency of Discipline?
seen and shared: “Some Christians don’t need deliverance.They need discipline. You’re not under attack.You’re just undisciplined. Here are 5 signs your “spiritual warfare” is really spiritual laziness: You’re rebuking demons you keep inviting. “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” – James 4:7 You pray for freedom at night…But return to the trap in the morning. That’s not warfare. That’s disobedience. You call it a generational curse, but it’s just a habit. “Do not be conformed to this world…” – Romans 12:2 You don’t need another altar call.You need a better routine. The enemy’s not...
No One Can Claim “Indigenous” in America
Just pondering… for those who bemoan the expansion of Europeans into North America centuries ago, disrupting life of “ indigenous “ peoples…. (in defending a position favoring free and unfettered immigration to the US) ….No one was ever “indigenous “ to North America. Everyone migrated here in one era or another from somewhere else. If you want to go back to “indigenous roots”, look to Africa….. and in the present age it’s not altogether filled with hope, peace, and prosperity… constantly in need of assistance from outsiders, it seems to keep from killing each other off in genocidal wars or...
Thy Will Be Done
We had our summer of encouragement study group meeting yesterday. I’m praying it will turn into a new band. This morning I’m thinking about Joshua and Caleb and how disappointed they must have been with the adoption of the minority report and certainly with the resulting decades in the wilderness. But the two of them survived, the only two of their generation because of their faithfulness, their “preemptive obecience,” in trusting and obeying God. A lifetime later Joshua, in admonishing the fickle-hearted Hebrews could say, “You do what seems best to you but, as for me and my house, we will...
Titus 2 Report December 2024
- Transported mother with her child that needed pre-surgical consult to a specialist in Gainesville - Transported a mother in long term life recovery to spend time with her adult child now in an out of town recovery program, too. - Assisted with financial and transportation assistance for a woman in recovery to secure documents for restored drivers’ license. - Provided 16 holiday gift cards to a recovery program for clients’ gifts. - Provided six weeks of volunteer part time case management services for a program’s case manager on maternity leave - Provided a giant print Bible...
Titus 2 Report Jan/Feb 2025
-We held a 3-day garage sale at my Montgomery house last werk. After downsizing my own home 2 times in 4 years and downsizing Titus 2’s residence 2 years ago and then ending the residential housing component this past year, I had a lot of items that had no where to be used or stored. A new neighbor and prospective volunteer helped me all three days and even donated some items to the sale. We made a little over $800 for Titus 2’s ongoing ministry to women and families in crisis, both in PC and now here in Montgomery, too. -Unsold items were delivered today to Adullum House...
Titus 2 Report March 2025
-Teaching in Panama City every other weekend, Thursday evening at Bethel Village and Friday at Humble House and Eden Shores, also gives me 1:1 time with other women in emotional crisis. Co-leading with a case manager at PCRM’s Bethel Village, we completed a six week curriculum on suffering, obedience, and joy. -Each week I do check-ins with several individuals in Bay County, too. -Met with one lady in Dothan while transporting another lady there for dentures who is starting a new job in PC . - We assisted another person with whom we have worked in the past with a tooth extraction in...