by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 26, 2022 | writing
From 3/25/17 There was a day I decided that some people undertake writing a book under influences of considerably less noble motivation than I would have thought. A young lady who’d been in recovery for a few months and whom I’d only recently met had...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | Prayer, spiritual life, writing
Bill shared part of his morning study group’s discussion on Judges: Principles of Victory: “The right prayer might not be, “Lord, take this away” but “Lord, use this as a way through the brokenness of my life right now, to shine Your...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 9, 2022 | spiritual growth, writing
Building Positive self- identity and resilience are skills we work on ….. From 2018: A conversation on resilience by Sharyl Sandberg and Adam Grant: Adam: There’s research suggesting that journaling can be really helpful in this process (of building self...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 9, 2022 | reconciliation, redemption, Worldview, writing
“…. there is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28). Genesis 2:24: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 3, 2022 | story, writing
Writer Charlotte Donlon describes well the work we are doing as women write and share their inventories during steps 4 and 5 in the Twelve Step process. It is an evolving process, learning to hear and express one’s soul. “I describe soul stories as stories that touch...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 3, 2022 | recovery, writing
I’ve stated that emotional emergency leads to spiritual emergence.The difference between emergency and emergence? The ending- “Y” (you) bringing “e” (energy”) to the process by accessing the power of the Holy Spirit to engage...