by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 15, 2008 | Grace
John Wesley had a way of explaining grace to which I, and many others in the Methodist Church, have related. He said that the prevenient nature of God’s grace is like like a porch that invites and welcomes us to the door of God’s household of faith. The...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 15, 2008 | Aging
This past week my husband and I each completed questionnaires on our attitudes toward money as a part of a church class on stewardship that he is co-facilitating. When we’d finished we compared our answers and found that of the 15 questions we’d answered...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 8, 2008 | healing
You may remember this line from Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities’ and the infamous Madame Defarge’s knitting.Today I was given an article entitled “Knitting through Recovery’ about using knitting as an experiential method to manage...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 7, 2008 | spirit mind and body
With regard to spirit, mind, and body…..as I reread Mark 12:30 “you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength”, it occurs to me that scripture, too, concurs with the order...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 7, 2008 | judging
In the Three Springs journal there was a poem, apparently written by a girl in one of their programs that is, I believe, worth sharing with you. It is entitled “You and I”You are stubborn and hard headed.I am understanding and unselfish.You yell and scream...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 7, 2008 | spirit mind and body
Interestingly, just this morning, after writing the previous blog entry on “Spirit, Mind, and Body”, I was handed a journal published by a mental health care group from Huntsville, Alabama- Three Springs, Inc. Their logo includes this triad in a little...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 7, 2008 | spirit mind and body
Why is it that so many among those who call themselves “spiritual” talk and write about unity of the “body, mind, and spirit”? Almost to a person, when they speak or write of integration of these aspects, of holistic living, they put the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 20, 2008 | 2 Corinthians 12:7-9, blessing, thorns
Today as I sat in a women’s Bible study, based on Paul’s confession of his “thorm in the side” in 2 Corinthians 12:7-9, in which Jennifer Rothschild talks about “thorns” in our lives and how we respond to them, I was reminded of a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 17, 2008 | Trust
The holidays are a blurry memory already. A new school term has begun. The 2008 calendar is already showing signs of wear as appointments have been entered throughout nearly every month’s page. The next several seasons’ goods are stacked on...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 24, 2007 | 2 Corinthians 12:7, Genesis 32:22-32, transcendance
For 6 or 8 years now I have suffered with some foot discomfort from a condition known as Morton’s neuroma. It’s damage to the nerves in the balls of the feet that is, I’m told, the result of years of wearing high heeled, narrow toed, insufficiently...
