by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 14, 2022 | poetry
From 197 Seeing all these pix of infants among friends at church and with my children’s birthdays coming up soon (40 and 38), I’m feeling sentimental about my young mothering years. A poem from that time of my life: Infant Sleeps What words can a mother...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 14, 2022 | poetry
From 1973….. Infant’s Sleeping Smile I’ve stood by your cradle and watched you Dream your silent dreams. Empty they are of a language But filled with humor, it seems. So recently from His hand you’ve come The two of you still share A private thought between you...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 14, 2022 | poetry
How I passed the time all those years I was driving around 3 states as a sales representative: Surveying Property in Alabama Acres of yellow wild flowers carpet a field Soft and fragrant beneath the hooves of grazing cattle. A half mile further west, another is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 14, 2022 | boundaries, discipline
“If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 14, 2022 | Wellness
By Jill Carattini: 3/14/2020 Every human lament is a love-song,,,,,Will love one day no longer be laments?” Gracious God, please, let it be. A woman who had a history of abuse and a difficult past had been coming for treatment and had been showing signs of healing....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 14, 2022 | recovery, Titus 2 Partnership
An individual asked in response to our report of two women launching into fully recovered lives: What do you feel are the experiences, new learning and resources that Titus 2 provides that resulted in an environment in which these women overcame their addiction and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 12, 2022 | Suffering
by Mitchell Dillon 3/7/2021 “A few thoughts on Job: It has been said that not everyone believes in Jesus, but everyone believes in Job. And yet, have you ever noticed that nobody names their child Job? If they did, I don’t imagine the other parents would want...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 12, 2022 | sanctification
Once in a while a name from the past comes to mind or is recalled by someone else and I smile remembering moments when there was joy in seeing that person grow…….and I pray that the good work begun by God has been continued, that others have nurtured and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 12, 2022 | service
I was reminded of something I hadn’t thought about in years…..when we lived in Montgomery, Bill’s Mother and Uncle lived with us. Uncle Harry was a WW II veteran who had served in North Africa. He was a bachelor and had a stroke when he was about 65,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 12, 2022 | addiction
WARNING: Content may be distressing…… Today’s continuing education webinar on PTSD vs. Schizophrenia was both interesting and disturbing. The role of early childhood trauma in PTSD is unequivocal, although the symptoms may not appear until years...
