by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 26, 2022 | witness, writing
CBB 3/26/22 Bill had shared this story about “Faith Moving Mountains” with some friends. I was curious about the origin of the story. Here’s what I found about the church from which the story grew. The “anonymous” video appears below the...
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 26, 2022 | Wisdom
Your direction, not your intention, determines your destination. Andy Stanley From ” The Principle of the Path”. It’s not enough to WANT to follow Christ, you have to actually DO it and strive to STAY on the path. That’s a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 26, 2022 | nature
from 3/25/19 Now that the reconstruction work on the seawall, dock, and fence are complete, we are able to begin serious work on restoration of the yard. I hauled dirt to fill in low spots, transplanted 3 shrubs to new locations, and repotted a few plants. A...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 26, 2022 | culture
I was in Dothan, just south of the Walmart when traffic headed north backed up because of a multi car accident. I could see at least 5 LEO vehicles in the median and left lane and a tow truck in the left lane. I was already in the far right lane. Maybe 30-35 cars were...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 26, 2022 | nature
Now this is cool….. Terrie McCook DePerro and I sat on the beach today and talked about the earth’s water cycle as it moves about the planet, watering, cleansing, renewing the earth…. It is the circulatory system, the heart and pulse of the earth....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 26, 2022 | growth, redemption
Humanity and its earthly habitat, which God called “very good” soon got off track in Eden due to men’s and women’s lack of experience with a crafty low-life character who had been exiled from holy Heaven to this new earthly...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | home
Someone posted a cartoon on Facebook about a man not remembering if he put the toilet seat down or not the night before. As he walked into the bathroom his wife is down IN the toilet. It made me laugh. In the 8 years we’ve lived in our little house at Deerpoint...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | family, home, marriage
History on my favorite “rock”….Bill and I had come through a rough stretch in our marriage 16 years ago. We had worked through it and were studying Ray Vander Laan’s “Faith Lessons from the Holy Land” video Bible study at Sunday...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | Suffering
So many of the girls and boys affected by childhood sexual abuse will wind up further vicitimized by their inability to find freedom from the shame and hurt and will wind up living lives of addiction to substances or promiscuity or further abuse. Secrets and shame...
