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 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...
Titus 2 Report April 2025
-Bi-weekly teaching in Bay County recovery ministries on Thurs-Friday continue on track, as well as providing additional support as opportunities arise. -Attended a ministry’s fundraiser, celebrated graduation from a program for one woman. - Provided 10 gift cards as a reward to a group of women in recovery for their excellent work in witnessing to the impact relationship with Christ is having on their lives. /Mentor meetings with several individuals 1 on 1. -A three session curriculum on spiritual conflict resolution was completed with 3 groups. -Connections to recovery community in...
Titus 2 Report June 2025
June 2025 Report -Consulted on domestic abuse case involving residents adjacent to a family that is adversely affecting an older couple with disabilities. Identified and provided appropriate resources and provided encouragement and prayer and ongoing support to work through current situation. -Biweekly classes of 4 sessions at multiple recovery programs in Bay Co. -consulted with family members dealing with an adult child’s addictive behaviors -T2P is assisting with cost of vision exam and glasses for a woman in longterm shelter working through health issues and...
Kingdom Living
Kingdomtide is a liturgical season observed in the autumn by some Anglican and Protestant denominations of Christianity. The season of Kingdomtide was initially promoted in America in the late 1930, particularly when in 1937 the US Federsl Council of Churches recommended that the the entirety of the summer calendar between Pentecost and Advent be named Kingdomtide. Most denominations that have adopted the Kingdom Season have restricted it to the later autumnal part of what is referred to as Ordinary Time. (Excerpted from Wikipedia.org) I live...
America’s Amazon
Alabama enjoys the distinction of having the most diverse varieties of trees in the US! It is lush and green and beautiful from state line to state line without being overly stressful in geography or weather. For me, Alabama truly has been God’s country. It has nurtured my heart, mind, and health. In the 4th grade Alabama history class in Clayton, AL we did a class play about Alabama. I wore a sash that proclaimed “Alabama Rivers” and I had to recite all the rivers in the state! I remember the event. I do not remember all the rivers!scott Peek wrote an informative social media post about...
Loving Enemies
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 https://seedbed.com/beoad-aspiring-to-tolerance-and-inclusivity-or-full-of-grace-and-truth-2/ This morning’s devotional from Seedbed.com (posted above) hit a tender place for me. I have been confronted with the instruction to love my enemies several times by God. Six years ago a ministry leader I trust and respect wrote about the 23rd Psalm and observed in writing about a verse in Psalm 23 the imagery of “a feast prepared for us in the presence of our enemies with them FORCED TO WATCH.” My sense of that writer’s description was that...