by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 21, 2026 | Cultural Issues, emotions, self-awareness, spiritual life, transparency
I don’t expect anyone to help me back…..but it does make me wonder when someone I’m helping thinks it’s okay to play me and other Christians for fools……. take and take and take, all the while lying and faking how well they are doing while betraying me and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 17, 2026 | change, doors, emotions, Ministry, Uncategorized
As I prepared for the Celebration of Life service for an elderly friend this past weekend, I came across a small photo of her in a lovely pink dress with a small white hat with netting, a white corsage and holding a bouquet. It appeared to be a wedding photo. But it...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 7, 2026 | desires, emotions, heart of God, worship
JD, in our seedbed.com Wake Up Call devotional, challenged us to identify from God’s Word, the verse(s) that would guide us this year, not merely a single focus word. JD has told the story of a Ms. Betty, a senior storekeeper who would always greet him with this...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | Emotional Literacy, emotions, Teaching
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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 14, 2025 | discipline, emotions, justice
I love it when women I’ve mentored in the past are thinking deeply and engaging with God’s Word. One texted to ask,“I’m reading a book on obedience , it references, Genesis Six . How can the Lord have regret?” My reply:“God is a person, with emotions…. Our capacity...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 8, 2025 | emotions, healing, Prayer
7/21/23 Notes after recheck at doctor’s office following partial thyroidectomy weeks previously: Strange….. after today’s Wake Up Call devotional and prayer several people and situations came to mind….. more prayer. Then this…… tears...
