by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 12, 2022 | Friendship, heart, loneliness
A much younger friend wrote this about 6-7 years ago ….I ached to think of her loneliness. I had felt this loneliness for many years when i was a young adult. Then, in my early middle years, I realized God was sending several people for whom I was to BE...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2022 | community, discipleship training, Friendship
If you are not meeting weekly …… with.2 or 3 or a handful of folks together in close, accountable, studious Christian community (single gender) and pondering the principles, proclamations, prohibitions, and promises of God’s Word and how to apply it to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 22, 2022 | Friendship, memories
Tribe of spiritual mothers who took me in during my 40’s and taught me that we need never do life alone……loved me out of fear of being alone and into belonging to community of interdependent faith in Christ! I watched as four of them modeled the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 13, 2022 | Friendship, God's attributes
Today I spent a couple of impromptu hours on an otherwise unscheduled Saturday at the home of a close friend….. We laughed about neither of us having a prior commitment and being free, it being such an uncommon experience in our frequently over-scheduled lives....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 30, 2022 | Faith, Friendship, grief, Holy Spirit
I have written before about the phenomenon of observing light in a person. The first time I witnessed it was in 1995. It was in an individual with terminal cancer with whom I had prayed for months about issues of unforgiveness. I had been under a heavy burden of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 29, 2022 | Friendship
2 Timothy 3:2-5 “For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen...
