by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2016 | addiction, counseling
As I have worked in counseling and spiritual formation with women over the last 10 years, I have observed a particular attitude that it has taken me ten years to wrap my mind around and articulate what it is I am seeing. It finally all came together this past week...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2016 | conflict
One of the most difficult tasks of communication that we find necessary to work on at Titus 2 is handling conflict. The first principle is “Don’t RUN!” . Others might argue that the first principle is “Don’t get defensive.” If one...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2016 | Aging
Yippee Skippee! Proverbs 31:25 “She laughs at what is to come!” Aging Is Associated With Better Mental Health by Fran Lowry August 25, 2016 Medscape News Like good wine and cheese, one’s mental health improves with age, new research suggests. In a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
News from Johns Hopkins researchers you’re not likely to see in the main stream media: In the ’70’s the American Psychological Assn. removed homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses. In the 90’s it stated that homosexuality is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2016 | Prayer
An insight and morning meditation shared with me by a friend….. “An individual observed that God “invites” us to pray. It’s not a command. When one thinks of the word invite, it is often in a positive sense whereas the word command often...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2016 | Prayer, Uncategorized
“Prayer…….is rebelling against the status quo of a world going awry. It is refusing to come to terms with an unjust, dark and evil world, as if it were all we were meant to have, as if there was no one or nothing that could change it; prayer is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 21, 2016 | cooking
From the ecstasy of victory to the agony of defeat…..I had posted about last night’s roast. After dinner I mixed up two batches of banana bread and popped the loaf pans in the oven, having preheated the oven, and noted the time. I then set about doing some...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 21, 2016 | cooking
8-21-16 Mama’s roast Shades of “Mama’s roast”! It only took me 44 years to accomplish it, but Bill said last evening that I had cooked a roast “just like Mama used to cook!” (and gravy to go with it!) Is there a higher...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 20, 2016 | peace
Jesus’ words do not always come to us in seeming gentleness and with hope, but convicting and with warning…….unless we are able to read with hearts that are open to his own heart, with minds that desire to know his own mind. I’m preaching on...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 9, 2016 | Faith
James MacDonald’s message on 8/2/16 at Walk in the Word” How to live by Faith”, was very apropos, given the Olympics in Rio: Nahum 1:7 The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble, And He knows those who take refuge in Him. It was such a simple...
