by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 21, 2022 | Suffering, Trust
Sunday’s are always the hardest days for me without Bill. I go to church. I plan things. I try new recipes. I work in flower pots. This is the day the devil works hardest to hit me with grief and sadness. Today he attacked me at a point where I am most vulnerable-...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 12, 2022 | Suffering
by Mitchell Dillon 3/7/2021 “A few thoughts on Job: It has been said that not everyone believes in Jesus, but everyone believes in Job. And yet, have you ever noticed that nobody names their child Job? If they did, I don’t imagine the other parents would want...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 5, 2022 | healing, Suffering
The matter of suffering and our desire to somehow avoid it in life has been very present lately as my awareness has been heightened by my own and others’ experiences…. One person told me she’d had a dream in which her abuser, no longer in her life,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 4, 2022 | Suffering
Jesus Christ was a man of sorrows, yet the bearer of joy to a weary world. Being in ministry reveals a small insight into the depth of His sorrow, not just on the cross but looking daily into the eyes and hearts of dead souls that don’t even know they are...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 28, 2022 | Suffering
Excellent reading on suffering from the Biblical Counseling Coalition…… In our ministry at Titus 2, the transition from avoidance of suffering to the willingness to engage with it and reframe it as purposeful is an opportunity to learn and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 29, 2021 | Suffering, thorns, timing, tradition, transcendance, woundedness
Adolescent reflection at age 17: “To say that one is wholly and undeniably happy is to lie. For how are we, such shallow beings, to determine those things which have gone to the utter depths of our souls and left them scarred with sorrow? Does not every...