by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 12, 2025 | spiritual battle, Teaching, writing
“Armageddon is only found one time, in the entirety, of the Bible. Yet it is one, of the most recognizable end time events known around the world. Today, the Valley of Armageddon looks nothing like it’s violent past or its future. Today, it is a fertile...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 12, 2025 | Aging, Comfort, pets, Uncategorized, writing
My little Bitsy Shih Tzu is so smart…she makes me laugh! I decided she and I would share a diced apple for breakfast, one of our usual travel treats. And I thought, “I’ll just start with the apple bits here at the kitchen table to give her the two syringes of cardio...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2025 | spiritual journey, Trivia, Words and Writing, work, Worldview, writing
A friend and I were talking about journaling, writing for one’s self and other readers, privately and publicly. She is a professional published writer. I’m just a WordPress amateur blogger. I have no publishing ambitions, I’m just preserving thoughts for teaching...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2025 | time, understand, Wisdom, Worldview
I was driving to our daughter’s new residence after a year of Covid isolation and realized I needed to refresh my memory of how to get there from I-65. The last time I’d been to their home, it had been by way of US Hwy 31 and State Route 280. So I called her to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2025 | small delights, Spirituality, understand, Wisdom, Worldview, writing
Today’s date “11/11”. (CBB 11/11/25) I remember a Sunday morning when a young grade school friend walked into my church office and noticed the digital clock on my desk showed 11:11 as the time (which it does twice daily!) He exclaimed, “Quick, make a wish!” I asked...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2025 | home, marriage, Memorials, memories, stones, symbols, Thanks, worship, writing
In the hymn sung today in the Seedbed.com Wake Up Call devotional, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” JD Walt noted in it a reference to raising one’s Eben Ezer, a stone of remembrance as a testimony to God’s work on our behalf. Bill and I have had an Eben Ezer that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2025 | Comfort, Prayer, Teaching
In a daily devotional online recently we covered a passage from Luke 22 regarding Christ’s prayer in the Mount of Olives before His arrest. Days later I’m still gleaning in the Luke 22 account of Jesus praying in agony with the knowledge of God’s will yet struggling...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 10, 2025 | conflict, counseling, discipleship training, reconciliation, redemption, sanctification, self examination, self worth, significance
In classes teaching women about identity, we reference two driving needs of humans, security and significance. Robert McGee’s book, Search for Significance, is helpful as part of this effort. Security is rooted in the need to feel loved and accepted unconditionally....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 8, 2025 | Ministry, missions, Titus 2 Partnership
Titus 2 Activities-October 2025 10/4 Attended EquipHer workshop in PC Beach on Psalm Bible Study and Prayer. New tools, new friends. Delivered monthly Meals on Wheels route Provided personal items for woman temporarily homeless awaiting disability approval 10/9...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 6, 2025 | appearances, mind, Spirituality, transcendance, Wisdom, Worldview
Simple, but not easy…… truth. For years I have understood that life in the physical realm is created to mirror and reveal the spiritual realm. Mankind’s obsession with its own capacity for freewill and the presence of an anti-God enemy happy to deceive mankind warped...