by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 27, 2025 | family, tradition, Words and Writing, worship
The family Christmas Eve activity at our daughter’s house last night after a top-notch dinner of her homemade gumbo, spinach salad, and French bread was each person sharing a poem around the table. Tim shared a short AI generated Christmas poem. Brady shared a fun...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 19, 2025 | Christmas, family, generations, tradition, worship
Speaking of crèches and Christmas traditions, one person told me that instead of “Elf On A Shelf” her family would hide the Jesus figure from their creche’ daily until Christmas morning when He would be found in the manger on the mantel! What a great Christian...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2025 | home, marriage, Memorials, memories, stones, symbols, Thanks, worship, writing
In the hymn sung today in the Seedbed.com Wake Up Call devotional, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” JD Walt noted in it a reference to raising one’s Eben Ezer, a stone of remembrance as a testimony to God’s work on our behalf. Bill and I have had an Eben Ezer that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 6, 2025 | forgiveness, healing, Hearing God's voice, heart of God, listening, Ministry, mysticism, Worldview, worship, woundedness
CBB 8/6/25 This link is to an excerpt from Dr Curt Thomason’s episode 13 of season 11 on Rupture and Repair. It can be viewed in full on YouTube or Apple Podcasts. Being Known , his ministry’s website https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AsA2XwqNV/?mibextid=wwXIfr In a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 27, 2025 | stewardship, Teaching, time, witness, work, worship
For 34 years Bill and I made special arrangements, at significant cost and entailing a lot of time to be with our AU Tigers and other fan-friends tailgating in sunshine and rain on Saturdays week after week…..My Daddy used to say that we spent our Saturdays with...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 9, 2025 | spiritual life, worship, writing
Shooting stars have held special meaning for me because of their propitious appearances at key moments of my life….always unexpectedly coming and bringing with them a sense of hopefulness and their alignment with what seemed to be God’s assurance that all would be...
