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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 31, 2022 | Friendship
I took lunch and visited with an 88-years-young friend of mine yesterday. We laughed and told stories for 2 hours. She showed me pictures from her youth…WOW! What a stunningly beautiful young woman! That doesn’t surprise me at all as she continues to be a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 4, 2022 | Friendship
Mar 4,2016 posted by my dear friend, Pam Nevins: I’m reading “The Gift of Friendship: Stories That Celebrate the Beauty of Shared Moments” by Dawn Camp, Jennifer Dukes Lee and wanted to share this quote. “The Beauty of Friendship We can...
