by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
God has such a sense of humor! I laughingly joke about a survey to assess people’s response to Facebook posts and God sends me an article on how to do it with numerous resources to do it! How appropriate that such a resource would come from a UMC board, given...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2021 | Aging, change, Uncategorized
Sept 28,2020 Word for today from Ecclesiastes 7:10: “Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.” Keep your focus on today. Each day is a gift. Open it. Enjoy it. Be blessed by it. Be a blessing to someone else...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2021 | peace, preparation, Uncategorized
From Sept 28,2020…… what COVID is doing to some people….. What good does it do to continue in the body if one’s spirit and soul are strangled to death by isolation, anxiety, loss of the important relationships and activities of one’s life? Only those who are willing...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.” Something shared in social media by a friend and worth remembering; ....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2021 | Teaching, Uncategorized
Word. Spirit. Church. Kingdom. Grace. Truth Word of God leads us into life in the Spirit. Spirit takes us deeper into the illuminated Word of God. Church is intended to manifest the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God becomes a reality as the Church walks...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 31, 2021 | spirit mind and body, Teaching, Uncategorized, Worldview
I receive an online newsletter called “Sounds True”. I look at it from time to time to get the drift of what’s being peddled by the popular culture as “Truth” to ears that want to be tickled…… today it offered a free video by a renowned Zen master called...