by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 6, 2022 | childhood memories
Cousin Victoria Baxley and me ( in the bandana skirt and top) drinking from aluminum dippers at the well pump of Antioch Primitive Baptist Church in Barbour Co., AL about May 1963.
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 6, 2022 | self care
“Lock your wheels down and put on your 9mm girdle! And walk like you own it!” Quoted from a post by a friend who is a private investigator in a major Southern city. She was commenting on having to be in a rather unsavory area of her city….. I had...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 6, 2022 | scripture
Studied Isaiah 5 as part of a study of the book of Isaiah using Dr. Sandra Richter’s materials…Isaiah 5 is the parable of the vineyard and we were comparing it to Jesus’ parable of the vineyard in Matthew 21. WOW! At the end of Matthew 21, we read...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 5, 2022 | delight, God's attributes
I saw a post on Facebook by a friend referencing her “favorite daughter”. I smiled, as I know she only has one daughter! Then I remembered another post on fb a few days ago, allegedly a mother’s post that went like this: “My children argue...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 5, 2022 | Covenant, culture, sleep
I love reading Jill Carattini’s devotional from Ash Wednesday of 2014 and her reference here to Lauren Winner, another thought provoking writer: Sleep and Ashes The Christian Vision Project was an initiative that began three consecutive years with a question....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 5, 2022 | joy
3/5/16… A dance recital photo was posted on social media of the daughter of a friend. I can so relate to her feelings of joy in watching her child dance. Our daughter Charlotte danced from the time she was two and on into her college years. I never could quite...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 5, 2022 | experiences
From 3/5/20 Whelmed…..to submerge, engulf, overtake utterly John 21:25 25Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. It’s been one...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 5, 2022 | dreams
Journaled: “March 5, 2021- Yesterday I spent time framing some of my favorite pictures of Bill and of the two of us. It was a sweet, comforting time of remembering our life together over the decades. As a result of such consoling activity, my reward was a sweet...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 4, 2022 | Ministry
when o worked in a hospital laboratory I took on call duty every third weekend. It could be frantic depending on things that happened… I spent a lot of time driving back and forth responding to urgent demands. That seems to be part and parcel with ministry,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 4, 2022 | boundaries
Having made some decisions about priorities and use of time in my life, I am busily unsubscribing from a number of regular contributors to the spam in my email inbox and the glut of trash emails. I had kept a lot of them active and would scan them to see if there was...
