by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 19, 2022 | The Church
Some things can only be said from outside the system. Several trusted advisors (some of them pastors) have offered me comfort and encouragement for having been discontinued from provisional deacon status by The AWFUMC by observing that I am...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 18, 2022 | poetry
Isaiah 6:8-13- Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I.(Send me!” 9 He said, “Go and tell this people: “‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 16, 2022 | Ministry
3/16/17- Once again, I can only marvel at what a sense of humor and irony God has! Last year at the same time that the Alabama West Florida Conference Board of Ministry notified me that I was discontinued from provisional status as a deacon, the UMC...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 16, 2022 | God's will, time
Whatever appointments I set for my schedule today, God has appointments that will either converge with or preempt my own. I pray that I will be aware of God’s presence in each of those and what God is doing in each situation, whether it is expressing himself...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 15, 2022 | scripture
From 3/15/20 A friend shared a FB meme that points a questioning finger at the NIV Bible and its publishing house by comparison to the NKJV on the basis of a difference in a couple of verses or partial verses that are “missing” from the NIV. The NIV, as I understand...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 14, 2022 | poetry
From 1973 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....
