by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
A word for 2025 for me…..FOCUS. It has been on my heart and in my mind for a couple of weeks. Then I was reminded of this scripture:Luke 9:51- “Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.”...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Funny how life works out. This is the house Bill and I rented for a year in May 1973 when we moved to Montgomery. Billy was a newborn. Bill had started work after graduation from Auburn with Proctor and Gamble. I have clear recollections of that little house and our...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Many people, particularly those with lives disrupted by chaos and trauma, have experienced spiritual encounters that invoked fear and confusion. Neither fear nor confusion are from the Lord. There are three spiritual entities one must learn to discern…. Holy Spirit,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
December 24, 2024 Thoughts after leaving the candlelight communion service tonight at Christ Methodist Church, Montgomery, AL: Rev. Misty Barrett tonight related a story from the Christmas when her son, now 21 years old, was 6 and in a school Christmas...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Sitting in my sunroom in the late afternoon I can hear Montgomery’s trains in the northern industrial area running. In a while the bugle sounds and National Anthem will signal the end of the day at Gunter/ Maxwell Air War College just down the road. Neighbors on my...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
When I was growing up there was a large tea olive tree that grew on the north side of our porch. Its fragrant flowers became a soothing balm for my adolescent emotions. In August I toured a garden home that I would soon purchase and to which I have now moved, When I...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 5, 2024 | community, love
Worth discussing…. “By Trey Ferguson @PastorTrey05 on X I have become FASCINATED by the biblical story of Isaac. I had a shower thought that turned into a bit of a whale hunt for me. But here it is: if you read Isaac as intellectually disabled, nothing about him makes...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
The need for emotional literacy- to recognize, identify, experience, communicate and respond to feelings in a way that facilitates connectedness is a human need….. connectedness to self, others, and God. Humans have also been given an extraordinary accompanying,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
If someone is disappointed in me, they were looking to the wrong source for their happiness or security to start with…. Look to God in Christ. If you see Christ’s fruit in me, go and let him do the same in you! Then we can celebrate our shared life in Christ! Affirm...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Salvation begins with our first wish to know and please God. It is Prevenient Grace that protects us and draws us there, to God himself. John 1:4John 6:44John 8:12Romans 1:20Romans 2:14-15 “God worketh in you, therefore you can work. Otherwise it would be impossible.”...
