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.
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...
Emotional Ambushes of Grief
) June 22, 2022) friend who lost her mother recently and I, now 22 months into widowhood, were just talking about this very aspect of grief last night. The experience of and lesson of such "emotional ambushes," as I have called them, is very true. It does demand that one "move over on the swing" or remember grief's "stone in the pocket" that the survivor carries. It will never let you forget that it is still there. Some other things will have to be delayed or discarded while your heart continues to enlarge its space to allow this absent loved one to continue there while other persons,...
Same Work, New Focus
The word the Lord had given me back in December for this year is “focus.” ( June 22,2024 CBB) Since before our 2024 first quarter church emphasis on prayer, the Lord had been putting on my heart and putting resources in my path on deliverance ministry….. not showy acts of laying on of hands and wild manifestations of the demonic spiritual reality, but the necessity of relying on Jesus Christ and praying diligently for wisdom and equipping. As I have been carefully picking my way through Scriptures and a couple of resources God put before me in February, I have become more aware of how...
Discipleship and Eternal Life
Without a doubt, this is the best description of discipleship I’ve ever heard! “John wants those who have believed in Jesus to understand the new truth about themselves: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13). Note where he goes next. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. (vv. 14–15) John is talking about eternal life in the framework of...
Epiphanies
The day I had this epiphany, that my eternal life began the day I professed faith in Christ, was a day of such immense joy! It totally revolutionized my view of time and myself within and beyond time now! It was a transforming and transcending mental snatching of me out from being “of the world” to being “in the world but no longer of it.” It was the beginning of my understanding of the Kingdom of God being HERE, now-and-yet-still-becoming. Thank you, JD, for helping make the Word and Spirit such vibrant witnesses to the new vision of reality, time, and space to awakening eyes. This personal...
Loving God With All Your Mind
In 1997 my relationship with the Lord developed exponentially as I began to learn how to love Him not just with an affectionate heart, or an obedient soul, but also to love Him with a listening, contemplative, and discerning mind. As He led me more and more also into loving Him ( and His people ) with active vocational strength, I asked the Lord what He wanted of me, how He wanted me to move forward, with whom and where. His reply was prompt and clear, “Get up daily, attune yourself to My Spirit as I guide you and I will bring them to you. “. He always has. He continues to do so. The key is...