by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
3/20/12- My Conversations with GodFifteen years ago this week I began a new journey. I heard the voice of God. It was jolting, though an exciting and invigorating experience, too. He spoke to me in a moment of worship, an odd moment early in the morning as I drove up...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve been pecking away now for over three years at requirements for ordination as a deacon in the United Methodist Church. I have finally gotten within sight of the “light at the end of the tunnel” . It is a great feeling to know that it’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Years ago I was a sales representative with a major consumer goods corporation. At the time there was a new way of moving products from manufacturer to retailer, skipping warehousing. They called it “just in time delivery”. The advent of large superstore...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
This exercise of blogging over the last 5+ years has been therapeutic and helpful. But I’ve come to the conclusion that, since I’m the only one reading it that it would be just as useful done in a journal, if at all. There’s no point in taking up...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
My mother, sister, and I have scratched our heads a little bit and laughed together about some of my father’s perculiarities since his life-threatening hemorrhagic stroke seven years ago. I think he’d always had a little bit of an obsessive-compulsive...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
I am a busy person. I like being busy. And I enjoy the satisfaction of getting things checked off my to do list. But more and more I realize that I may just be giving off vibes that I am too busy for the people who actually are the more important part of my daily...