by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 2, 2016 | knowing
Thank you for the invitation to speak about unity……which can be a challenge in today’s world. We are blessed to live in a community where people live together with mutual acceptance and goodwill, affording one another the freedom to pursue one’s financial,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 2, 2016 | heart of God, Uncategorized
John 1:16-18 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) 16 For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [have all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 28, 2016 | reconciliation, recovery, redemption, repentance, spiritual formation
Reflection on Psalm 51 and the Heart of Transformative Change Psalm 51: 7, 10 “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow…….. Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.” This Scripture is...
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...
