Nearly 400 years after the Hebrew people came sojourning with honor and hospitality into the land of Egypt during a famine, their hosts had become oppressors. Their lives were hard, even putting an entire generation of male children at risk of death as a means...
2020: Thinking About Thinking in 360 degrees CBByrd 12/15/20 Saturday, December 12th, 2020, I experienced circumstances that made it clear I was at risk of dying on I-65 North just south of Birmingham, AL. It was an...
As a COVID-19 widow of 4 1/2 months, I was privileged to share a testimony of hope with others who have found this Christmas season less than merry due to any number of reasons…… Below is the link to the Blue Christmas service at Lynn Haven UMC on...
It was this summer sunset view from the backyard on Deer Point Lake that brought us to this home nearly 16 years ago, which we purchased from Sunday School friends. We had first enjoyed this view during a Sunday School group dinner at the home of Marian and Robert...
My morning meditation…… Last night at our weekly small group at Titus 2 we talked about some conditions, or states of mind, that can lead to relapse. Historically referred to by the acronym H.A.L.T.- hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. We talked about...
I have written before about how frequently I awaken with a song playing in my mind, a hymn for the day, more or less. I hum or sing it as I arise and go about my day. On October 19, 2020, that song was a simple little song from my childhood: “A sunbeam, a sunbeam,...
I love(d) my husband, Bill, who died recently. And I know that Bill loved me. There were, however, ways in which we hurt one another over the 48 years of our marriage. And although we came from families that made it clear that divorce was not an option, that doesn’t...
Today’s message at Lynn Haven UMC was on “becoming”, following two previous weeks’ messages on “belonging” and “believing”. Pastor Craig Carter referenced Hebrews 9:28, “so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for...
Fruit of the Spirit as Landmarks in our Spiritual Journey……. I had wanted the stairs at Titus 2’s residential recovery program stenciled with the Fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22-23 since the home was purchased in November 2014. Finally, in 2019 as we were...
Bill Byrd, who passed from this physical life into his true life in eternity with the Lord on August 6, 2020, was raised in Dearborn, MI, an only child, an only grandchild, and an only nephew among his immediate family. He did have a number of Byrd family aunts,...
