by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
“The word, “plan,” is, in the Greek, oikonomia – economy. It means an order, an administration, a way of “keeping house” that flows from a set of priorities through a bank of resources into a new order on earth, one that reflects the way things are in heaven....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Christianne Squires is a trained spiritual director who shares her thoughts and insights through a weblog and online community called “Still Forming Land.” I have been a subscriber to her blogs for a while and find them often thoughtful and challenging. This one...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 14, 2015 | change, Uncategorized
A year ago this week, after what seemed like the disastrous culmination of a difficult six months, as it became clear that the end was coming in an area that had been fulfilling and productive, a new journey began. As one ministry friend told me, sometimes it is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
For years I was aware of my grandmother and at least two of her four sisters from time to time having yard sales together. They would gather at one another’s homes, gather their excess items or handmade crafts or rooted plants they had cultivated and spend the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
I know I will catch some flak for this, but I must say I have been disapointed by the anemic attendance of Holy Week services….30 on weekday mornings for devotional time…Wednesday night footwashing and communion…maybe 175. Tenebrae….maybe the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Imagine yourself as one of the women who walked to Jesus’ tomb early on that Sunday morning…… John 20:1, 11-16 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb…….. Now Mary stood...
