by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 1, 2022 | forgiveness
It is amazing how simply understanding why something that seemed so out of character and incomprehensible in the behavior of someone came to be gives one the freedom to finish the hard labor of forgiveness that has struggled to be born. Thank you, Lord, for your gifts...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 15, 2017 | forgiveness, Grace, growth
I was having one of those “as we drove along” conversations with Titus 2 ladies the other day. We’d had some difficult situations through the week and I took this captive-audience time to talk to them about guilt. As I shared with them, it is a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 26, 2017 | forgiveness
“Audre Lorde description: “Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 5, 2016 | forgiveness
What experiences in our lives inform one’s faith and practice of it? And is it any different for clergy as opposed to laity? Episcopal Priest Underwent Abortion to Finish Divinity School, Later Tanked Parish This is a disturbing report of a parish priest...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 5, 2014 | forgiveness, Four Promises, Ken Sande
In Steps 8 & 9 of the Twelve Step process, individuals are challenged to both forgive and receive forgiveness. Ken Sande, author of The Peacemaker, has some practical ways to make that process easier to accomplish: “Forgiveness may be described as a decision...
