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.
Freed, Indeed
Reflection from a 1/2/2022…. still true. There are some who are imprisoned behind bars. Others are imprisoned behind masks. Still others are imprisoned by their own choices. Christ came to set the prisoner free. It doesn't matter what chains are holding us.
Defining Worship
I love this! CBB 1/2/24
New Year’s Prayer Requests
12/31/25. CBB My grandson -in-law asked me yesterday if I was making any New Year’s resolutions. I told him, “No. I don’t do resolutions. A friend and I do prayer requests. She and I shared prayer requests last year for what we hoped God would do in the year ahead. She reminded me of my prayer request from last New Year’s today….as you can see, as the year unfolded and we shared what God is doing in our lives, my prayer request was indeed met with abundant answers. My prayers for her have been answered in huge ways, too!!
This Is Discipling The “Self” In Others.
12/31/2025. CBB. Report of a text conversation with a friend with whom I have journeyed over a number of years…. This is what discipling the “self” in others looks like out of one’s own experience of being discipled in Christ by His Holy Spirit.Sister-Friend; Happy new year Cathy, I am wondering if you can help me. I am looking for a word that means that you are totally connected to God and in his will. Is there a word that encompasses all that? I have been searching for it and can’t find it. Me: I think the word that describes the state of being you’re reaching for is what some call...
Another New Year: Another Day To Reflect On Letting Go…. And Letting God
This it a liturgy I pulled together years ago for our Titus 2 students, first as a celebration for completing 12-step work, then as a way of reflecting on the changes they had made in the year closing and embracing the New Year with hope and anticipation….. Worship for the New Year: Liturgy of Letting Go-12/31/2025 Today we honor the changes that we’ve made over this last year and the growth that comes from change. We’re saying goodbye to our old ways and saying hello to what we trust will be the beginning of a future with even greater hope. We remember how Abraham and Sarah set out to a new...
In Response to “What Makes A Global Methodist A Global Methodist?”
This….. earnestly believed, clearly articulated, demonstrably practiced, generously shared…. is what I came to expect from, longed for and sought in the Wesleyan tradition of Christian practice to which I came as an adult in 1972 and which I found among some who understood and who held then and hold still now, wherever they choose to worship. CBB Dec ‘25 Thank you, Bishop Carolyn Moore for sharing! What makes a Global Methodist a Global Methodist? Kevin Butler nails it: A Global Methodist isn’t defined by branding or structure. It’s defined by identity a shared theological DNA and a lived...
New Traditions
The family Christmas Eve activity at our daughter’s house last night after a top-notch dinner of her homemade gumbo, spinach salad, and French bread was each person sharing a poem around the table. Tim shared a short AI generated Christmas poem. Brady shared a fun poem, “I Like Pie” styled somewhat in the Green-Eggs-And-Ham mode. I shared a poem about friends and being together from a book of poetry entitled “Same.” Charlotte had introduced me to it at Thanksgiving. Riley recited from memory Robert Browning’s “ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” And Charlotte shared a Christina Rosetti...
Titus 2 Ministry Activities December 2025
Titus 2 Ministry Activities December 2025 Completed Meals on Wheels monthly delivery to 13 households 12/3 Assisted young mother starting job with securing 3 required colors of collared style shirts from a clothes closet and provided a Walmart gift card to purchase required black non-slip shoes. 12/8 Provided Walmart gift card ($75) to woman in transitional living for personal items as she prepares for new job. 12/3/25 Provided 45 pairs of donated socks for One Mission Church to distribute at weekly homeless supper. 12/10 Laundered 3 loads of laundry from One Mission’s shower and clothes...
Time’s Illusions
Time is a strange thing when filtered through the lens of memory. “I had thought that Bill’s cousin, Dr. Bobby Echols, died on Thanksgiving weekend and that this Thanksgiving (2019) would be 2 years. Bobby’s sister, Debra Echols Turner, texted me this past week with a reminder that it was Labor Day Weekend- of last year, 2018! Barely a year. I was stunned. We’ve been through so much and so much was going on when we got news of Bobby’s sudden death. Since October 10th, 2018, (when H. Michael hit) until today time is more or less a blur.” (from November 2019. CBB) I came across the note above...
A Random Winter Saturday
What an utterly beautiful winter solstice weekend in the Heart of Dixie! I bought a new Burford Holly and planted it. (Not prickly!). And I planted a Peggy Martin Rose I’d bought around Thanksgiving and wove it into the garden arch. I refilled bird feeders and got a cute squirrel and hedgehog holiday seed feeder for the birds. I moved one feeder outside the fenced side yard because Simon spends time lying in the sun near the feeders there inside the fence. He’s too crippled to chase birds but they don’t seem to know that. The feeder outside the gate is a safe place away from the cats that...