by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 1, 2015 | spiritual life
It is interesting to consider the things that are on one’s mind and heart upon arising. Bill was telling me about his dream. It was about real people Just a brief cameo moment in which he recognized them. But it is a family that we hardly know in a distant...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 29, 2015 | Emotional Literacy
A severe mercy? “Practically speaking, disillusionment is the loss of illusion. In terms of larceny, then, it is the equivalent of having one’s high cholesterol or a perpetually bad habit stolen. Disillusionment, while painful, is evidence which shows the myths...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Christianne Squires is a trained spiritual director who shares her thoughts and insights through a weblog and online community called “Still Forming Land.” I have been a subscriber to her blogs for a while and find them often thoughtful and challenging. This one...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 25, 2015 | spiritual life
Ron Hutchcraft writes about the people with whom we “travel” in life….This is a conversation we have as part of the Titus 2 program. Changing one’s life often requires changing the people with whom one “travels”. Learning to be more...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 24, 2015 | Depression
When you’re staring at your past, strewn with disappointments, it’s difficult to see your future, just as it’s difficult to drive when you’re constantly looking in your rearview mirror. Tony Evans There was a time in my life when I was “stuck”, looking in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 20, 2015 | spiritual life
“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber in their beds, he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction.” Job 33:15-16 The context for this scripture is that God warns us through dreams, to turn us away...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 14, 2015 | change, Uncategorized
A year ago this week, after what seemed like the disastrous culmination of a difficult six months, as it became clear that the end was coming in an area that had been fulfilling and productive, a new journey began. As one ministry friend told me, sometimes it is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
For years I was aware of my grandmother and at least two of her four sisters from time to time having yard sales together. They would gather at one another’s homes, gather their excess items or handmade crafts or rooted plants they had cultivated and spend the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 6, 2015 | Easter
Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015 Trinity UMC “Seeing is Believing” Scripture: John 20:1-18 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2015 | Bible Study
T.M. Moore of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview has authored an individual Bible study on Gods’ Covenant. It is available on line. ...
