by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 7, 2025 | Prayer, spiritual life, Teaching, Wisdom, witness
I heard a pastor say, somewhat dismissively? how he dislikes hearing people say, “I am with you in spirit!” He said we know that one’s human spirit cannot be in two places at once since to be “absent from the body is to be present with the Lord,” i.e., as in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 29, 2024 | marriage, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Bathsheba’s ( And Eve’s) Actions in Perspective I had previously written about Bathsheba and Eve, in discussing their roles and those of the men associated with each woman in the sins committed by each and who, in God’s opinion appears to have been...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 9, 2024 | change, Truth, understand, Wisdom, writing
After attending Seedbed’s New Room Leaders Gathering in February, I realized that using the language of “personal surrender” had worn thin with me in talking to adult discipleship students….. The language of “consecration” of self (as we...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 9, 2024 | books, reading, Wisdom
Reading Adam Grant’s 2021 book, “Think Again.”. The book is an “invitation to let go of knowledge and opinions that are no longer serving you well, and to anchor your sense of self in flexibility instead of consistency. If you can master the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 7, 2024 | change, Wisdom, work, writing
Jesus is enough.Seen this week and posted:(words written on a torn scrap of brown paper sack) “Father, forgive me for the times I craved a seat at a table you would have flipped.” Principle discovered in “downsizing:” While my physical...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 4, 2024 | Teaching, Wisdom
“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” Frank Clark – Our German daughter, Ingela, who spent time in our home as an exchange student, sent this quote several years ago. She is stating...
