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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 1, 2015 | Quotes, Uncategorized
This is another commonly referenced internet quote from Dr. Bob Moorehead’s “Words Aptly Spoken” is this: The Paradox of Our Age By Dr. Bob Moorehead The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today I remembered something I hadn’t thought about in a very long time. Years ago I was interviewing for a rather coveted job in sales career ambitions. At the interview I was asked to take a personality inventory, which I did. The next day I received a call...