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.
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Titus 2 Ministry Report- September 2026
- Gift of $25 to Lorraine’s Bake Shop, 22 Dexter Ave., Montgomety, to support “Pay It Forward” fund for mission neighbors in downtown area to be given coffee or food item, when needed, particularly during inclement weather. (9/5) - Transported life recovery client to out of town court hearing to clear drivers’ license for reinstatement. (9/1) Transported to ALEA to secure reinstatement letter (9/4) - Transported expectant mom and 3 children to out of town auto sales company to receive a freely donated, refurbished van that is part of the company’s “kingdom”...
Apocalypse Now
I see posts expressing mixed emotions of angst and eagerness over what some view as Revelation’s end-time seeming to be playing out in the world today. I just am not an apocalypse speculator, neither afraid, nor eager. I just take each day as it comes, trusting God with it, as well as each tomorrow. When I think of God’s destruction of the evil and broken world of Noah’s day with the flood and God’s promise not to destroy it again with water, it occurs to me that the point then was to destroy evil. Surely, there was a lot of collateral death of animals and innocent (though not righteous)...
“….to accept these unlikely stones and to make of them building blocks of a worthy life edifice.”
There was a day when I did not recognize a pharmacy charge on my credit card from a pharmacy I had not used in over a year, since a move to a different neighborhood. It took a bit of effort to track down the particular store and, once identified, it turned out my card had actually been used at least a half dozen times in the last year, all by the same person, from the same pharmacy. Since it was not local to my town, I thought about who I knew from that community and I was able to identify the user, although the pharmacy would not confirm an identity and advised me only to call the sheriff’s...
Sign
8:28am CDT, 9/11/26. Frank Siller was talking in an interview on Fox News on Sirius Radio about losing his brother in the fall of the first tower. He was saying that the current steel beam traveling memorial display, presently in NY, is attracting lots of viewers. Many lay their hands on it and say a prayer. Immediately after he said that I was looking at the growing sky of dark clouds over Bay County as I drove to Panama City. I saw to my left, in the SE sky at the 10 o’clock position, the clear form of a large right hand in the clouds with detailed columns of “fingers”, a palm and thumb....
”You’re Just Like…”
Listen to the tone. Consider the context. Don’t be surprised by the little jabs that sometimes come. Be aware of small hints that reveal truths anout feelings that have been buried deep. i visited my Mother last Friday. She will be 90 in December. Our relationship has often been strained. We are very different. She has often told me I am like my maternal grandmother… my size and shape, my hair color and texture, and more. Last week she said, “You have your Granny Boyd’s hands…”. She went on to comment on the bent fingers and the arthritis- enlarged knuckles. Yet another way I am “like your...
Titus 2 Ministry Report-August 2026
Gift of $25 to Lorraine’s Bake Shop, 22 Dexter Ave., Montgomety, to support “Pay It Forward” fund for mission neighbors in downtown area to be given coffee or food item, when needed, particularly during inclement weather. (8/7) Gift of $50 for family support of young woman in prison to allow regular phone calls to family (8/3) Assisted with children’s birthday party with gift bags for 12 at Mary Ellen’s Place (MEP) residents and provided a Walmart gift card to each of 5 mothers. (8/8) Delivered a box of donated gift items from Christ Methodist Church-Montgomery members for MEP families....
Night Shift
At 2:15 a.m. my phone emitted a soft “ding” notification of a message. I reached over and looked at the screen. It was an irrelevant, seemingly erroneous message from someone I had worked with last week. So I disregarded it and then realized my right jaw was aching. Not enough to wake me, the notification had done that. But it was enough that I couldn’t return to sleep. The dull ache has happened several times in the last 8-10 days. I lay there wondering why it is happening and thinking I may need to schedule a dental appointment. Then I remembered the fever blister on my upper left lip and...
The Place Where Miracles Don’t Happen – JD Walt Wake Up Call 7/17/26. KEEPER!
READ ALL OF MARK CHAPTER 6.Mark 6:1–6 NIVJesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.“Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town,...