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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 3, 2025 | knowing, Prayer, spiritual life, Trust
My reflection 11/3/25: “When the Lord puts something on your heart to do, you do it. It may not make sense to others. It may not even make sense to you at the moment. But the logic of the world has no bearing on what God has said to you. Others will not be accountable...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 31, 2025 | growth, healing, Purpose, sanctification, self care, spiritual life, Uncategorized
Be ye sanctified wholly…spirit, soul, AND BODY!!! 1 Thessalonians 5:23 I teach that people grow in six ways…the same ways Luke 2:52 tells us that Jesus, in the fullness of His humanity, grew perfectly….The ways God created us all to reach full maturity.In wisdom...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 7, 2025 | Prayer, spiritual life, Teaching, Wisdom, witness
I heard a pastor say, somewhat dismissively? how he dislikes hearing people say, “I am with you in spirit!” He said we know that one’s human spirit cannot be in two places at once since to be “absent from the body is to be present with the Lord,” i.e., as in...
