by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | Wisdom, worship
I love this! CBB 1/2/24
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 31, 2025 | Friendship, Prayer, time, tradition, writing
12/31/25. CBB My grandson -in-law asked me yesterday if I was making any New Year’s resolutions. I told him, “No. I don’t do resolutions. A friend and I do prayer requests. She and I shared prayer requests last year for what we hoped God would do in the year ahead....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 31, 2025 | discipleship training, John 17:6-26, spiritual life, Teaching
12/31/2025. CBB. Report of a text conversation with a friend with whom I have journeyed over a number of years…. This is what discipling the “self” in others looks like out of one’s own experience of being discipled in Christ by His Holy Spirit.Sister-Friend; Happy...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
This it a liturgy I pulled together years ago for our Titus 2 students, first as a celebration for completing 12-step work, then as a way of reflecting on the changes they had made in the year closing and embracing the New Year with hope and anticipation….. Worship...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 27, 2025 | The Church, theology, Worldview
This….. earnestly believed, clearly articulated, demonstrably practiced, generously shared…. is what I came to expect from, longed for and sought in the Wesleyan tradition of Christian practice to which I came as an adult in 1972 and which I found among some who...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 27, 2025 | family, tradition, Words and Writing, worship
The family Christmas Eve activity at our daughter’s house last night after a top-notch dinner of her homemade gumbo, spinach salad, and French bread was each person sharing a poem around the table. Tim shared a short AI generated Christmas poem. Brady shared a fun...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 25, 2025 | Ministry, Titus 2 Partnership
Titus 2 Ministry Activities December 2025 Completed Meals on Wheels monthly delivery to 13 households 12/3 Assisted young mother starting job with securing 3 required colors of collared style shirts from a clothes closet and provided a Walmart gift card to purchase...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 25, 2025 | memories, time
Time is a strange thing when filtered through the lens of memory. “I had thought that Bill’s cousin, Dr. Bobby Echols, died on Thanksgiving weekend and that this Thanksgiving (2019) would be 2 years. Bobby’s sister, Debra Echols Turner, texted me this past week with a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 20, 2025 | lifestyles, seasons, writing
What an utterly beautiful winter solstice weekend in the Heart of Dixie! I bought a new Burford Holly and planted it. (Not prickly!). And I planted a Peggy Martin Rose I’d bought around Thanksgiving and wove it into the garden arch. I refilled bird feeders and got a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 19, 2025 | community, generosity, Gratitude, lifestyles, Uncategorized
From 12/19/21. CBB A friend of mine died recently. Many knew him and those who knew him well knew him as a generous and kind person. Many people had stories of him coming to the aid of someone by providing for or making contact on someone’s behalf to provide for...
