by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 20, 2016 | spiritual gifts, spiritual life
I’m reading “Touching Heaven” by Dr. Chauncey Crandall, recommended by women in my Sunday life group at church. “God surrounds every one of us with His kingdom at every turn – with messages and messengers, signs and gifts – and He...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 20, 2016 | Comfort, counseling, counselors
“Jesus didn’t wait for a crowd of perfectly well adjusted disciples to turn up; he appointed a real mixed bag of personalities, in spite of their weaknesses and struggles. There’s a place for everyone in the Church and it breaks my heart when I hear...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 18, 2016 | Friendship
Bill and I have been in a long season of transition over the last three years. Yesterday as I prepared a home cooked meal and last evening as we enjoyed a leisurely dinner and conversation with friends, I realized that life is more stable and less stressed than it...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 11, 2016 | God's attributes, Hearing God's voice, knowing, Uncategorized
“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 11, 2016 | counseling, self-awareness
Over the years I have observed genogram discussion sessions with Dr. Michael Carns, a skilled family and marriage counseling educator and practitioner with over 35 years’ experience, as he invited the Titus 2 students into this tool of self-discovery. A genogram is a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 10, 2016 | self worth
Sadly, this is one of the most common realities that I as a life recovery counselor experience, the deep sense of unworthiness for the good things that God desires us to have because one has believed what has been said by someone who failed to see the value of a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Ecclesiastes 7:8, 9 . . .. Do not hurry yourself in your spirit to become offended, for the taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones. In The Peacemaker by Ken Sande, he diagrams the various responses available to Christians in the midst of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 10, 2016 | Ministry
This morning I got a call from a person I’ve been assisting for 3 weeks through parish community outreach and case management who had come to Panama City with a referral for a new job. The couple raised 4 children in a Methodist Church out of state. After the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 10, 2016 | pets, Uncategorized
We’ve had a sweet little female feral cat for 13-14 years, Patti. She was a runt that got abandoned on the roof of WMBB and when the operations crew went up to run her off, she jumped off into the shrubbery. She was pulled out of the shrubbery and dropped into a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 9, 2016 | discipline, Spiritual Warfare, Suffering, Teaching, Truth
I am part of a 365 Bible Challenge study group. We were finishing up the Job section recently. Among the group’s members there was a conversation by one who had felt persecuted by some individuals in her workplace. She was asked in the group why she felt that...
