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.
Anonymous Servant of God
“Can you serve the Lord in ministry and be content simply with whatever praise comes from Him? There is a woman, a prophetess of God who did. God chose not to reveal her personal name. She was known only as, wife of Isaiah, Isaiah 8:3. Her mention is brief but significant and an important lesson for everyone because the opportunity to serve the Lord in any capacity is not an opportunity for promoting one’s self as being powerful or important. Pride disqualifies anyone who seeks positions of authority, 1 Timothy 3:6. Isaiah’s wife was a nameless, prophetess...
Christmas Memory With Bill
1/2/17 CBB When dismantling all the "Christmas" around our house, I generally wind up forgetting one or more small things tucked away here or there. Tonight I realized I had three little glass trees in the hutch in the kitchen. I was picking them up when Bill walked by and said, "You don't have to put all the Christmas stuff away." I said, "Why not?" He replied, "Cause it's Christmas everyday!" He's carrying the spirit of Christmas forward through Epiphany and beyond!
Why Teach Emotional Literacy?
Why we include emotional literacy, values education, sharing our lives as well as our testimony, and the importance of interdependent living at Titus 2: CBB 1/2/20 The Most Private is Often What Resonates the Strongest The pyschologist Carl Rogers, a person who would know quite well the interior lives of others, has this to say of our inmost thoughts:I have most invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal and hence, most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many people. It has led me to...
Where Heaven Meets Earth
As we seek God, at the border of the Holy we are invited to commune with our Creator, glimpsing His realm, where we are received with joy and loving-kindness that is beyond anything that can be known in this realm! 12/31/21 CBB Screenshot
Cosmic Revelations A-coming
CBB. 1/2/23 A year ago, after the Webb Space Telescope launch, I wrote this based on multiple news reports….. "NASA has hired a team of theologians, led by Reverend Dr. Andrew Davison, to guide humankind through potential worldview-shattering information that might come to light as a result of exploration of the cosmos by the new John Webb telescope that launched in December….it is 100x more powerful than Hubble and is already giving new glimpses into mysteries of the universe. "The “most significant question” Davison is trying to answer is how theologians might react to the notion “of there...
A BLESSING FOR THE NEW YEAR
Daily Blessing….. Susie Larson. 1/2/23 "May you learn how to walk in the authority Christ has entrusted to you. May you speak PEACE to your soul and PERFECT LOVE to your fears. May you refuse discouragement simply because courage fits you better. May you walk with those who bring out the best in you. May you love those who cannot return the favor. May you return to your First Love, time and time again. Jesus is your Source, He’s your Strength, He’s your Fortress, and He’s Your King. You lack no good thing because you have Him. Walk like it’s true today." Psalm 23:1 BSB ~ The LORD is my...
Memories of Bill
1/2/2015….(a memory recalled 1/2/23) "We had a pull chain come out of the light fixture on a ceiling fan. Bill took it apart, figured out what to do, ordered a replacement part for less than $5.00, had it in two days, and installed it this afternoon. Call me "IMPRESSED!" He's always been pretty handy when he wanted to be, there were just a lot of times he didn't want to be! LOL! Of course, now that we live on retirement income and have fewer distractions, it's a lot easier to get motivated to "want to"! My love language is "acts of service". So anytime Bill does something like this….takes...
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!!