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.
More Than You Think I Am
I had a great time preparing and delivering the message "The Name of God“, about God's nature and our understanding of him. for today at Carillon Beach Chapel. I have preached and taught on this topic before but today seemed more powerful than before and the Lord was very present with us! Yesterday as I drove home from Tallahassee, I listened to the words of this song I've heard many times and never realized what it really says! More than you Think I Am” by Danny Gokey You always think I'm somewhere on a mountain topBut never think behind barsYou'd be amazed the places that I'd go to be with...
On Being a Covenant Person
What does being in "covenant" with someone mean to you? Answering one another's calls or emails? Being available to assist or provide guidance in times of need? Offering concerns about one another's conduct promptly? Being willing to help seek answers? Helping one another to gain understanding? Expecting the best of one another? Praying with and not simply for one another? Listening to one another? Shared values? When one believes that the other has not acted in harmony with the precepts of the gospel and attempts to ask why with no responses forthcoming, is it reasonable to think one might...
Solomon’s Counsel
Over Simple Supper last evening at church Bible study some of us were comparing progress in storm recovery and celebrating small victories for various families. We were also observing that, now four and a half months into this process, many are feeling very tired. The adrenaline immediately after the storm has long ago been depleted. We can see progress, but we can also see how much more still needs to be done. The realization of how large the task is for our community and how little we as individuals can accomplish day by day sometimes overwhelms us. There were volunteers from Bushnell, FL...
Persevering In The Long View
Over Simple Supper last evening at church Bible study some of us were comparing progress in storm recovery and celebrating small victories for various families. We were also observing that, now four and a half months into this process, many are feeling very tired. The adrenaline immediately after the storm has long ago been depleted. We can see progress, but we can also see how much more still needs to be done. The realization of how large the task is for our community and how little we as individuals can accomplish day by day sometimes overwhelms us. There were volunteers from Bushnell, FL...
Lenten Examination and Repentance
Dr. Curt Thompson on Lent: "As I have been reflecting on and anticipating this season in the church calendar, it occurred to me how beautifully and mysteriously our observance of Lent maps on to our day to day experiences, as well as the whole of our lives. Not least in terms of how it connects us not only to our sin, but to our grief. And as it turns out, it is to our grief we must go if it is liberation from our sin that we desire. At one level, Lent invites us to examine ourselves to name those elements of our lives—our sin—for which we long to repent; to repent of those characteristics...
Mountain Top Experiences
Today’s (2/21/23) Wake Up Call from seedbed.com is an important word for us in our faith journey or pilgrimage. And one particular paragraph JD shares really speaks to me. I think it bears repeating. “Mountain top experiences cannot be contained. They must be received as holy encounters and then processed and pressed into pilgrimage. I love the way Oswald Chambers speaks of this, “It is a wonderful thing to be on the mountain with God, but a person only gets there so that he may later go down and lift up the demon-possessed people in the valley (see Mark 9:14-18).” He adds, “The true test of...
No Need For Christmas Letters Anymore
From 2/22/2016: CBB "LOL! I just realized the reason I haven't been motivated to write an annual "Christmas letter" to send out to family and friends in Christmas cards the last couple of years, as I had been accustomed to doing for quite a few years! I do it day-by-day here on Facebook. I share events of our family's lives in the ordinary things that delight us. Saves a lot of trees and money and avoids the inconvenience and annoyance to those who could care less. But for those who care (or those who like to point and laugh or roll their eyes) it's worth the investment of a little time to...
ALMOST…..
Thank you Mary Nicholson Rue, for sharing this meme below. I was just enjoying the early bloomers yesterday and thinking this very thing!! “I love being a February Girl! February…..On the cusp of a new season,Revealing glimpses of something new,Restoring hope…… Creating anticipation for a future of light, warmth, and joy in being part of all that’s new! Lean into the lengthening day! Lean into this Lenten season ushering in new life!” CBB 2/21/26 Isaiah 43:19“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the...
Why A Snake?
2/16/26 I was looking as Facebook post memories and the one below popped up….. 2/16/23 CBB Perhaps why satan is portrayed as a snake in the garden????? Interestingly, as Dr. Curt Thompson talks about brain development, he describes the initial neurological development in humans as "reptilian"….it is the basic. elemental "lower" brain stem that controls autonomic reflexes- breathing, heartbeat, etc. and establishes our ability to survive physically. The tempter in the garden is described as a reptile. He appeals to the basic "lower" instincts to survive, to control one's own safety and...
”I don’t feel worthy.”
2/15/26. CBB Today in church, Wendy Askew, who does children’s ministry at Christ Methodist Church-Montgomery, shared about a time she was talking to children about the feast in heaven. She was having them imagine being in heaven at the feast, what they would be eating, who would be there. how they would feel, what it would be like to be at the table with Jesus.One little boy said he didn’t feel worthy to be there. She told of feeling the little boy’s pain and telling him that none of us are worthy. We all have done things that made us feel sinful, but that’s why Jesus came and died on the...