by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 14, 2009 | discipleship training, Genesis 2:18, marriage, recovery
A woman, without her man, is nothing.A woman: without her, man is nothing.In reading a book, Flawed Families of the Bible: How God’s Grace Works Through Imperfect Relationships (David and Diana Garland, 2007, Brazos Press), I came across these two statements at...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 23, 2007 | cardinals, marriage, symbols
From a journal entry 12/27/2001:It’s quite nippy today. I’ve put out birdseed and there’s a lot of squawking and chirpping and coming and going. I had fretted over the absence of birds, especially cardinals recently, thinking the cats might have...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 3, 2007 | Idolatry, marriage, self examination
“Idolatry is the universal human tendency to value something or someone in a way that hinders the love and trust we owe to God. It is an act of theft from God whereby we use some part of creation in a way that steals from honor due to God. Idolatry conflicts...
