by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 27, 2015 | desiring God
3:30 a.m. at Deerpoint Lake: The night was so still, even the crickets were asleep. The dogs and I went out for a brief walk in the backyard. I looked at the night sky and wondered if it was that quiet on the hills around Bethlehem the night of Jesus’ birth...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 16, 2015 | communication, desiring God
I write from time to time about “thoughts upon awaking”, the things that I find at the front of my mind as soon as my eyes are open. This morning it was “The Wizard of Oz” movie….of all things. I haven’t seen it in years. But somehow it played into my pre-awaking...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 3, 2014 | desiring God, heart, loneliness
Loneliness. It gets a bad rap. One reason for that is, I think, that when we feel it, if we have not learned to identify why we feel it and what to do with it, it can throw us back into an emotional state that we likely experienced early in life – for some in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 25, 2013 | David, desiring God
Today I was teaching a class from 1 Samuel 22-23. This is the point at which Saul has allowed his jealousy and paranoia to overcome him and he has begun his persecution, indeed his murderous rage against David, and David is on the run from one place to another. ...
