by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | memories, time
I grew up in a home in which an antique family mantel clock chimed the quarter hours and counted each hour for us day and night. My Daddy was the one who kept it wound each week. It was a steady and comforting sound for me growing up. Bill bought me a Westminster...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | Career, family, memories
3/10/2017 Bill and I had a conversation over lunch with our eldest granddaughter, age “almost 20” about the movie “Silence” and about theological implications of persevering in the faith, apostasy, being used by God in the most difficult of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | family, memories
3/10/2013 Middle grand girl, Haley has a volleyball tournament at Bay High today. With her parents out of town, I took her down at 7:00 a.m. We turned into the parking lot and I hear, “Uh oh. I forgot my shoes…” Me: “Shall we go back and get...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 24, 2022 | memories, Methodism
Sent by a friend: GARRISON KEILLOR ON “METHODISTS” We make fun of Methodists for their blandness, their excessive calm, their fear of giving offense, their lack of speed, and also for their secret fondness for macaroni and cheese. But nobody sings like...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 23, 2022 | marriage, memories
Having sweet memories of a fun day, remembering our youth! This was in May 1972 almost two months after our first date on April 1st! We were married in July during summer semester and moved into married student housing for his last two semesters at AU! Then moved to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 21, 2022 | memories, Movies
Bill and I went to an afternoon movie, “Risen”, with Rev. Grant and Jennifer Powell. of First Church of God of Panama City. We enjoyed the movie and the conversation about it afterward as much or more! Pastor Grant has done a sweet service for Titus 2 this...
