by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 21, 2025 | redemption
I’m in a small group of women who have been engaged in a summer of encouragement devotional reading. It has included a very good couple of weeks of daily readings on Gideon. As I was reflecting on Gideon this is something that I recognized from his story and many...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 19, 2024 | redemption, spiritual growth, understand
)CBByrd 3/19/2022). Even in the wilderness, darkness or midst of battle…… “It’s not a dead end if God took you there for a purpose.” Character in movie “Unconditional” If you find yourself in any such place, God’s redemptive power...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 18, 2023 | redemption, Suffering
3/18/2020……. Reflections I have had several women come into Titus 2 who have told me that the reason they got sober was because God told them, in no uncertain terms, at a critical point in their addiction that, if they continued, they would die. While it...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 28, 2022 | redemption, scripture, spiritual life, witness
I love how God gradually reveals things about oneself, little tidbits of information and insights gleaned here and there over years, then one day just hits you with it: “This is you!” This morning I was meditating on His Word. Suddenly in my mind’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 1, 2022 | redemption, Suffering
Joni Eareckson in 2017 observed the following about her devastating accident that had left her paralyzed for 50 years: “God allows all sorts of things he doesn’t approve of. God hated the torture, injustice, and treason that led to the crucifixion. Yet he...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 12, 2022 | redemption
“The first Adam fell from his humanity from eating a proscribed meal he was forbidden to eat. The last Adam showed us how to rise to our humanity from eating a prescribed meal we are bidden to eat.” Leonard Sweet There is such beauty in the many ways we...
