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.
COVID Issues: from 9/28/2020
A tale of two perspectives: #1: posted by Rene Evans: This is attributed to Dr. Fauci. The facts about the respective diseases are easy to check.  From Dr. Fauci: “Chickenpox is a virus. Lots of people have had it, and probably don't think about it much once the initial illness has passed. But it stays in your body and lives there forever, and maybe when you're older, you have debilitatingly painful outbreaks of shingles. You don't just get over this virus in a few weeks, never to have another health effect. We know this because it's been around for years, and has been studied medically for...
Spirit, Soul, and …….Body
from 9/28/2020 What good does it do to continue in the body if one’s spirit and soul are strangled to death by isolation, anxiety, loss of the important relationships and activities of one’s life? Only those who are willing to sacrifice that biocentric view of life that preservation of one’s physical well-being is the be-all and end-all of one’s existence will know the joy of truly living into the fullness of life -spirit, soul, and body-while it continues and when the physical life ends, according to God’s timing, one’s spirit/soul will gently transition without skipping a beat into...
Moon Struck
From Our Daily Bread: The eye never has enough of seeing. Ecclesiastes 1:8 “Frank Borman commanded the first space mission that circled the moon. He wasn’t impressed. The trip took two days both ways. Frank got motion sickness and threw up. He said being weightless was cool—for thirty seconds. Then he got used to it. Up close he found the moon drab and pockmarked with craters. His crew took pictures of the gray wasteland, then became bored. Frank went where no one had gone before. It wasn’t enough. If he quickly tired of an experience that was out of this world, perhaps we should lower our...
Spiritual and Physical Senses
This is a testimony and significant part of the reason why I am so adamant about no smoking at Titus 2 or around my home. Written a couple of years ago, I have shared it a number of times with women in recovery. Kicking nicotine along with other chemical dependencies provides significantly greater long term sobriety success according to multiple long term studies. “I have written in the past about randomly smelling stale tobacco smoke in the past and, after medical consultation, Christian counseling and discussion with others who have experienced the same phenomenon, I had recognized that it...
At The End of The Day…. Blessed
From 9/27/2014..... "I am one blessed woman.......At the end of the day, this one has been quite happy and productive. I am so grateful for the blessing of family, friends, students, God's call on my life and having the strength and desire to know and follow hard after Him! Yesterday I heard a woman 10-15 years or so my senior, in conversation over lunch, say that she and her husband had just that morning had a conversation about their lives....and were happy to say that they are coming to the dusk of their lives content and satisfied that they have lived in keeping with God's will and have...
Firsts
FIrsts.......Our students experience many firsts....first sober holiday in many years, first experience of feeling God's presence and recognizing the feeling of pure love, first time praying out loud in a group, first time confronting fear instead of running from it, first time admitting to secrets that have caused shame and guilt, and more. For one young lady it's also been the first time experiencing avocado, spaghetti squash, chicken salad, DQ blizzard, Starbuck's coffee, listening to Christian radio, and.......realizing that she has been created and loved by a sovereign God who is...
Little Fires All Around….
From 9/27/2015, after attending New Room.... What I was feeling then and wrote....... “Little "fires" are all around, awakening faith and ministry in many places.....I see them..... below the "radar", making a difference, and I believe that we are moving toward a renewal that will make previous Christian renewals small by comparison.” From 9/27/2020: Reflecting on the 2020 New Room Livestream: "Many more have begun living the Awakened Life, Yes. That was the message of Friday night’s live-streamed conference. It is underway! I can hardly wait to see what 5 years hence will look...
Art Scams…..Uh, “Investments”
From 9/27/21: Funny 🤣….. yesterday in the car I heard Maria Bartiromo doing a segment on the money scam of Hunter Biden’s $500,000 “art” pieces hanging in the White House and scarfed up by Chinese businessmen, the money laundering history of art dealers, and Hunter Biden leveraging his dad’s political position to make money for 20 years which he then split with Joe. It was immediately followed by a Wall Street ad for an art investment fund. I chuckled at the idiocy and irony of it all. It’s been called a “genius” scam. #Bidenart. #Bagman #Laughlife #HideYour$$
This Is My Tribe
9/27/21: This is my tribe….. I cannot recount all the incredible ways in which I’ve seen God move in the last year in Spirit-abiding, in comfort-giving, in provision-making, in protection-covering, in promise-keeping, in vision-giving, in faith-building, in love-enlarging, in wall-smashing, in territory-expanding, in demon-outcasting, in prayer-answering, in intercession-making, in soul-lifting, in mind-renewing, in will-strengthening, in conscience-sharpening, in ear-tuning, in eye-opening, in heart-softening, in hunger-filling, in power-wielding, in home-welcoming, in relationship-healing,...
Love Stuck In Emotion and Behavior
9/26/22 I awakened early and read and listened to the Seedbed Daily Text for today, as I do each morning. https://seedbed.com/wake-up-call-this-may-be-the-most-important-question-i-will-ever-ask-you/# So I wrote an email to JD Walt, as I do some days, rather than bore the people on the Facebook group with my rambling... To : JD Subject: Another important question I ask my discipleship students.... "What does 'love' mean to you? How do you describe it? What does it feel like? How does one express love to another? How does one know she is loved?" Almost always they respond with something...