by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 4, 2022 | Friendship
Mar 4,2016 posted by my dear friend, Pam Nevins: I’m reading “The Gift of Friendship: Stories That Celebrate the Beauty of Shared Moments” by Dawn Camp, Jennifer Dukes Lee and wanted to share this quote. “The Beauty of Friendship We can...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 4, 2022 | scripture
Micah 6:8: The Great Requirement- He has told you, O man, what is good; what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? – “do justice” is to address the cause of the need to which God has called you –...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 4, 2022 | family
“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” – Frank Clark – Our German daughter, who spent time in our home as an exchange student, sent this quote several years ago. She is stating...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 3, 2022 | recovery
3/3/15 What a sweet moment….I was talking to someone about the concept of Freedom in Christ and healing ministry for those in addiction or other spiritual bondage…..She said, “The thought that keeps coming to my mind is the story of Harriett...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 3, 2022 | nature
3/3/2018 The full moon over Deerpoint Lake this morning is stunningly beautiful! Moonlight filtered through oak trees falling on the patio stones makes patterns that look like puzzle pieces. The silvery shimmer of the moonlight on the water resembles metallic...
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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 3, 2022 | boundaries, Truth
Last year at a faith and science lecture Dr. Ian Hutchinson used a phrase that made me smile….one that I have come to use based on my own experience and understanding of the need…. to “tether to reality”. Tether… to restrain by setting...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 3, 2022 | writing
Observed about social media… You know, after all these years and as many times as I’ve written “God” you’d think my auto-correct function would anticipate and offer that as a suggested word. Yet, it never does. So if I hit the wrong keys, there the word...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 1, 2022 | Wisdom
Beautiful surrender…….As I drove a friend in her third year of alcohol recovery to a medical appointment out of town she said, “Surrender was hard. I struggled, but once I finally made the first surrender (of a hurt from the past), the others began...
