by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 1, 2009 | seasons
In the last two weeks I’ve noticed the signs of the season…..several blooming trees in my own and my neighbors’ yards, the emerging green on brown branches, the red maples’ firey early explosion, bulbs rising out of flower beds, and robins all...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 1, 2009 | Ministry
A week ago I wrote about Babbie Mason’s song “Trust His Heart” in a post entitled “His hands, my hands. This weekend our church held it’s 14th annual Hope for the Heart weekend for women and Babbie Mason and her songwriter friend, Donna...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 27, 2009 | service
Tonight a young woman who works the night shift at the local mission told me she had seen a gentleman who is a member at the church I attend at the mission at 6:00am on a weekend morning helping some homeless men with an enterprise that he and another man have...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 21, 2009 | Lamentations 3:41, symbols
Lamentations 3:41a – Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven.Hands have been of particular interest to me since the time that the Lord really got my attention and I rededicated my life to him in 1992. About that same time a song by Babbie Mason...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 20, 2009 | Aging, Psalm 118:24
Today has been a wonderful day…..my 55th birthday! Before 7:00a.m. I had already received 5 phone calls with birthday wishes. There were a half dozen cards, numerous posts on my Facebook wall, and several impromptu renditions of “Happy Birthday to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 20, 2009 | Career, Mark 5
Last week I read two devotionals on Wednesday and Thursday regarding the Gerasene demoniac in Mark 5,(“The Right Weapon” and “Managed or Solved?” by Lorraine Ezell at www.mastersbusiness.org). The first one was on how the people sought to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 15, 2009 | pets
Wednesday morning, while Bill was out of town on business with our son, I stopped by a friend’s house to pick something up on my way to work. While I was on her porch Bill called on the cell phone and heard my friend’s dog barking. With some excitement in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 14, 2009 | discipleship training
For several months now, almost every time I’m in the truck listening to Christian radio, I hear Slow Fade by Casting Crowns. It’s a powerful song about how insidious and subtle the intrusion of sin is in our lives. If we are not actively maintaining our...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
I am a busy person. I like being busy. And I enjoy the satisfaction of getting things checked off my to do list. But more and more I realize that I may just be giving off vibes that I am too busy for the people who actually are the more important part of my daily...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 10, 2009 | neighbors
In the early hours before dawn my husband had to catch a flight. Neither of us slept well, waiting for the 4:00am alarm to ring and preparing for the dash out the door. So, by the time the alarm rang, we were both up moving about, him getting dressed, me packing for...
