by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 26, 2022 | brokenness
“A single day in a brothel and red light district can open your eyes to the frightening reality these women encounter. When you look into the eyes of a trafficking victim who has been robbed of her sense of self and self-respect, she will often tell you that you...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
A line from “Homeland”….between two powerful spy-guys who were former cross-national colleagues and who now find themselves on opposite sides of the international political crevasse and both trying to leverage one another…..”We are both...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 26, 2022 | nature
So…. I’m sitting in the dark scrolling along and clicking between FB and Twitter, checking some of my favs, and I catch a glimpse of a shadow of something on the top edge of the screen. I focus in on the top of the screen and look closer…. there it...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 26, 2022 | home
Everything old is new again….. We have had this trash can for many years. I had it in the laundry area of the garage at Deerpoint Lake. A painter in 2013 got paint on the lid and it looked awful. When I moved I considered trashing it. Instead I cleaned the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 25, 2022 | grief
My daughter in law shared this from Stasi Eldredge about grief. Like many others, I know the feeling of slogging through “knee deep mud” in the middle of grief. Some images are so vivid. I can remember a day when I was about 6 or 7. I headed to my...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 25, 2022 | family
I had a sweet dream last night and I think I know where it came from….Harper Lee died last Friday, on my birthday. I had purchased her second novel ,”Go Set a Watchman”, a sequel to her Pulitzer Prize winning novel “To Kill a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 25, 2022 | Friendship
Wise words: In conversation a person said to me in a very thoughtful way, “I’m starting to see friendship differently. It is about being there and doing for others.” Indeed, friendship is defined by our willingness to “lay down our lives”...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 25, 2022 | grief
Recovery is “a process of change through which people improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential.” (US government, as defined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.” In...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 24, 2022 | Spiritual abuse, spiritual battle, Truth
2/25/2015: In discussing a situation in which I was fervently adamant and outspoken , a friend likened my actions to those of a “bull in a china shop” and said “people don’t like getting their china broken.” I replied, “I...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
God has such a sense of humor! I laughingly joke about a survey to assess people’s response to Facebook posts and God sends me an article on how to do it with numerous resources to do it! How appropriate that such a resource would come from a UMC board, given...
