by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 11, 2023 | childhood memories, emotions, family
😊 A friend with 2 babes under age 2 posted the below the other day and I immediately remembered those days! It also still applies to our older babes, it’s just different triggers. For younger elementary kids it’s learning rules, starting real curriculum, being around...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 10, 2023 | The Church
To: Cathy Sunday, September 10, 2023 Regarding first ordination of clergy by Alabama-Emerald Coast Conference of The Global Methodist Church  at St.James Methodist Church, Montgomery, AL “I thought of you many times this weekend. Almost every one of us had a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 9, 2023 | family
In the parable of the 4 soils, it was sowing seed in good soil that produced a yield. Today as we considered evangelism in our worship service, the pastor reminded us of the bible’s promise of return on investment from witnessing to the power of Christ in our...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 9, 2023 | books
Two more books arrived at my house today….. What we take so for granted was a technological revolution in its day……….. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 7:3 “When Johannes Gutenberg combined the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 9, 2023 | understand, Wisdom
From Ezekiel 36 “9For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown. 10 I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. 11 I will fill you with...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 6, 2023 | Bible Study, Wisdom
Love, love, love this meme above …. It is a lovely image that goes along with God’s instruction to my heart (posted in my weblog) about maritime metaphors…… Battleships and fishin’ boats…. When I had read Johm 6, (right after the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 6, 2023 | leadership, Teaching, Wisdom
This brief meditation below on Proverbs 29:2 comes from an Emmaus friend who has shared her morning meditations with some of us through email for years. For maximum impact go read the entire text of Proverbs 29. It is enlightening. God always knows what one needs....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 6, 2023 | family, grief
Solitaire I attended the wedding of a friend …. retired and a few years younger than me. Our circumstances of singleness are different – divorced versus widowed. As I watched her excitement and joy, I thought to myself, “I can’t even imagine...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 2, 2023 | peace, self care, Spiritual abuse, spiritual battle, Spirituality, The Church
I had written on 3/21/22 in this blog about a season in the spring of 2016 when God spoke to me about deadwood and “sap fire”. specifically what happened as I sat waiting for the 2016 conference clergy conference to begin where the vote on my deacon...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2023 | giving
A church’s benevolence fund is not like a social service agency that receives grants like many non-profit community agencies. It is also not like your personal home budget and how you choose the way you dispense charitable gifts. Church members provide funds...
