by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Florida I have been certified as a Recovery Support Specialist since 2008. It did not necessitate a history of lived chemical addiction. I did not hide my past, I just hadn’t thought it relevant so many years later. Others are certified there as Peer Recovery...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 28, 2025 | authority, boundaries, churches, community, Uncategorized
God is so attentive! This week He has placed me in three circumstances where accountability was the issue at hand…. Yesterday a young mentee with whom I’ve work for a year told me about discovering in a rather sudden and disconcerting, even supernatural, way that God...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
When one shifts focus from “surrender” of one stronghold point of brokenness, shame, rebellion, ignorance, etc. after another in a life of “recovery”…..to focus on consecration of all of one’s self to the Lord, change happens. This is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
My little home’s fireplace damper has some wear and tear and is very difficult to close. I had a chimney specialist over to check the gas line and logs before using and he said replacing the damper would be pricey, He recommended using a fire box cover when not in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
A word for 2025 for me…..FOCUS. It has been on my heart and in my mind for a couple of weeks. Then I was reminded of this scripture:Luke 9:51- “Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.”...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Funny how life works out. This is the house Bill and I rented for a year in May 1973 when we moved to Montgomery. Billy was a newborn. Bill had started work after graduation from Auburn with Proctor and Gamble. I have clear recollections of that little house and our...
