by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 27, 2022 | time
“The present is the point at which time touches eternity.” ⏤ C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters I think one of the sweetest, most precious memories of a time with the Lord was the moment He revealed to me that the instant I received Him into my heart was...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 26, 2022 | Words and Writing
“Enough!” A word expressing a posture of satisfaction, contentment and peace? Or an exclamation expressing exasperation and wanting something about current circumstances to end? In which place do you find yourself today? I was talking to a friend about a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 26, 2022 | healing
I was talking to a friend about some things she had shared with me and others about a family situation. I observed that there seemed to be a number of family “secrets” and adults trying to protect one another. All of this appears to be granting power and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 26, 2022 | Ministry
Looking back at a day in ministry at Titus 2…..from 2/26/2015 It was one of “those” days…..I spent most of my day in the car- dropping a lady at work, delivering another to a couple of doctor appointments, taking one to a housecleaning job,...
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...
