by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 5, 2016 | delight, Gratitude
The trains on the trestle next door run through Birmingham all night long. It was disconcerting the first time I visited our daughter’s home and discovered they had built next door to a train trestle. But now it’s a comforting reminder that life is going...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 5, 2016 | grandmother, Gratitude, growth
Aren’t grands wonderful??? Just love seeing them grow and as grandparents we have so much more time and awareness of the joy in doing that than we did with our own children…..This morning I was driving my grandson to basketball practice and glancing at him...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 3, 2016 | Faith, Gratitude
Christie Purifoy (in Roots and Sky) writes: “I have always imagined gratitude as a kind of discipline. It is a practice. A choice. I still think this is true. However, I begin to glimpse a long-buried and misguided assumption. I have believed that the practice...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 27, 2016 | consolation, correction, dreams, Gifts, God's attributes, God's call, Gratitude, knowing, listening
Some things I have experienced in my faith journey I believe are because I have been given the spiritual gift of teaching. Those experiences are not part of my own gifting, but the Lord has let me experience them so that I may teach people about them more effectively,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 26, 2015 | giving, Gratitude, theology, True Religion
There have been criticisms of Christian evangelicals as being so focused on personal holiness that they have been neglectful of social holiness….of acts of mercy, compassion, and justice. As I am studying this morning I am hearing the Apostle Paul speak...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 14, 2008 | Gratitude
September 1st I started with “minimum full time” (32 hours a week) at the church. My hours at the homeless shelter dropped to 15 a week. It’s been challenging to manage my schedule for best use of my time, but I’m feeling better about it after...
