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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 25, 2022 | Friendship
Wise words: In conversation a person said to me in a very thoughtful way, “I’m starting to see friendship differently. It is about being there and doing for others.” Indeed, friendship is defined by our willingness to “lay down our lives”...
