by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 22, 2026 | Quotes, reading, spiritual life
1/22/23. CBB Quote from In Christ, Devo book by E Stanley Jones “With our base established and firm, we are no longer afraid of this thing called life. “He who would love life”—some fear life, some distrust life, some retreat out of life, some hate life—and some...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 21, 2026 | Cultural Issues, emotions, self-awareness, spiritual life, transparency
I don’t expect anyone to help me back…..but it does make me wonder when someone I’m helping thinks it’s okay to play me and other Christians for fools……. take and take and take, all the while lying and faking how well they are doing while betraying me and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 19, 2026 | spiritual growth, spiritual life
From Rich Villodas on Twitter: “Until the Church consistently leads people to the wilderness (i.e. prayer, solitude, silence, reflection, repentance, etc.) to confront our own demons, we will project our demons back out into the world, and fail to see that some...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 17, 2026 | seasons, spiritual life, The Church, timing
For many years I followed the calendar, seasons, and holidays that coincided with a standard school system calendar…… That has been the case for many of us who raised children or worked in education….We continued in the school-year pattern we had known growing up and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 10, 2026 | Disciples, Faith, family, spiritual life, Trust
Dottie Wilson’s description here is like the faith of my husband, Bill. He was an only child of parents who loved and provided for him. He was also the only grandchild of his maternal grandparents and had an aunt and uncle close by who had no children and who spent...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 31, 2025 | discipleship training, John 17:6-26, spiritual life, Teaching
12/31/2025. CBB. Report of a text conversation with a friend with whom I have journeyed over a number of years…. This is what discipling the “self” in others looks like out of one’s own experience of being discipled in Christ by His Holy Spirit.Sister-Friend; Happy...