by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 18, 2009 | Career
In recent months, as I completed graduate school and UMC certification studies and sought employment opportunities, I had been feeling a nagging impulse to take the next step in the UMC church toward a local pastor license as a means to being legitimately entitled to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 18, 2009 | brokenness
In my job I work with individuals in substance abuse recovery. While in the program they take several classes on spiritual topics from books that are familiar to many – Purpose Driven Life, Crown Financial, Changes that Heal, Boundaries, etc. Several of them are...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 17, 2009 | small delights
When I was a child, if a part of a piece of equipment broke, one sought out a replacement part. One didn’t have the financial luxury to simply replace the entire piece of equipment. Increasingly, it appears, our culture has developed a “disposable”...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 14, 2009 | spiritual formation
Over the last couple of years there has been ongoing conversation among leaders in our church and with the pastoral staff about striking a balance between the needs of those among the ranks of “seekers”, nominal Christians, and new Christians in our church...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
I just returned to this blog site after a brief (?) break and realized it’s been 10 days since my last visit. Wasn’t yesterday New Year’s Day? Each week seems to fly by. A new job must have something to do with that. Every day is so full. I have to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2009 | Prayer
For years I have saved one year’s Christmas cards until the next year. I take them out right after Thanksgiving and review them once again. Then I make my card list for the current year and begin writing. After the holiday I take the prior year’s cards,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 1, 2009 | spiritual formation
One of the things I love about my new job as program manager of a women’s Christian residential substance abuse recovery program is that I get to teach adults at a very fundamental level and watch them progress in their spiritual journey over a rather intense...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 26, 2008 | communication, transparency
I started this weblog in July 2005. With this post, I mark the 150th post. I’m not a particularly prolific blogger…..just a few times monthly, as the mood and urge strike. I’ve learned to exercise more discretion in the things that I make public,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s interesting that, this time of year, you can take almost any group of people with a Judeo-Christian background and put them together, add some Christmas traditions, and have a party. The case managers at the Homeless Day Resource Center pooled their talents...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
This year, instead of giving gifts to one another, my parents and siblings and I each chose a charitable enterprise to which to give. One brother and my parents chose food banks to support. Another brother and his wife bought Christmas gifts for a family whose...
