by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 9, 2023 | understand, Wisdom
From Ezekiel 36 “9For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown. 10 I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. 11 I will fill you with...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 6, 2023 | Bible Study, Wisdom
Love, love, love this meme above …. It is a lovely image that goes along with God’s instruction to my heart (posted in my weblog) about maritime metaphors…… Battleships and fishin’ boats…. When I had read Johm 6, (right after the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 6, 2023 | leadership, Teaching, Wisdom
This brief meditation below on Proverbs 29:2 comes from an Emmaus friend who has shared her morning meditations with some of us through email for years. For maximum impact go read the entire text of Proverbs 29. It is enlightening. God always knows what one needs....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 6, 2023 | family, grief
Solitaire I attended the wedding of a friend …. retired and a few years younger than me. Our circumstances of singleness are different – divorced versus widowed. As I watched her excitement and joy, I thought to myself, “I can’t even imagine...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 2, 2023 | peace, self care, Spiritual abuse, spiritual battle, Spirituality, The Church
I had written on 3/21/22 in this blog about a season in the spring of 2016 when God spoke to me about deadwood and “sap fire”. specifically what happened as I sat waiting for the 2016 conference clergy conference to begin where the vote on my deacon...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2023 | giving
A church’s benevolence fund is not like a social service agency that receives grants like many non-profit community agencies. It is also not like your personal home budget and how you choose the way you dispense charitable gifts. Church members provide funds...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 29, 2023 | listening, Prayer
If we can attune our ears and hearts to listen for God’s Word continually, then that would be the essence of praying continually, right? Okay. I can listen continually…. I can’t talk continually. And I certainy can’t talk and listen at...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 27, 2023 | Teaching
From 8/27/21. CBB From Revelation: Before the Day of the Lord, during tribulation, only those who receive the mark of the beast will have the “currency” to buy and sell in the earth. One has to understand the beast of the sea and the beast of the land to grasp what is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2023 | peace, Prayer, storms
From 8/24/2022. CBB This picture depicts Jesus on the boat with the disciples after speaking to the storm, “Peace, be still .” I’ve had this picture since 1997, the year of a fierce spiritual figurative “storm” in my life. It had hung...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 24, 2023 | boundaries
From 8/24/2014. CBB Saw this on a friend’s facebook this morning……”Just because I cut someone out of my life does not mean I hate the person….it simply means I respect myself.” In recovery ministry we often have to help our...
