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. ...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
I know I will catch some flak for this, but I must say I have been disapointed by the anemic attendance of Holy Week services….30 on weekday mornings for devotional time…Wednesday night footwashing and communion…maybe 175. Tenebrae….maybe the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Imagine yourself as one of the women who walked to Jesus’ tomb early on that Sunday morning…… John 20:1, 11-16 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb…….. Now Mary stood...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 2, 2015 | spiritual life
I have written in the past about early mornings when I have clearly had the Lord speak to me through Scripture or during prayer or just had a thought that was firmly persistent in my mind upon awaking. Sometimes such thoughts have been about things that were not even...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 30, 2015 | spiritual life
March 30, 2015 Over the weekend I had written about the “no’s” that are sometimes necessary in one’s life. On Palm Sunday, spiritual director Christianne Squires wrote about our “greater yes”. Here is her Sunday email newsletter, A Cup of Sunday Quiet: “I’m...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 29, 2015 | Prayer, Trust
A few weeks ago I was asked to do something as a counselor that would have challenged and stretched me greatly. It was a counseling challenge on several points. I was not afraid of the challenge itself, although the circumstances were quite a bit out of my general...
