by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
As part of a graduate school course in counseling multicultural populations, I have been reading from an anthology of essays on various aspects of diversity. There is an essay by Holly Sklar, a Knight-Ridder op-ed columnist, entitled “Imagine a Country”...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 8, 2007 | 1 John 2:16, Genesis 3:6, Matthew 4:2-10, Romans 8:13
“The enemy within” is the title of a book recommended to me by my daughter in law. She and I compare notes regularly on things we’re learning in our respective journeys of faith.As I was preparing for teaching at a Friday night Celebrate Recovery!...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
I have gotten started in a masters program at a local campus of an out of state university. The semesters are compressed into 9 weeks and the year consists of 5 semesters. It will enable me to complete my desired degree in less that a year and a half. But what a price...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 24, 2007 | reading, spiritual formation
For a number of years as I was growing in my faith, Dr. Charles Stanley’s teaching spoke to me with such power and conviction that it seemed he was reading my thoughts and preaching to me and me alone. It was eerie to me then that he always seemed to know just...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 7, 2007 | communion, decisions
“Dying moments, new beginnings” is a phrase that describes a communion celebration that many of us associated with The Walk to Emmaus will recognize. It defines what we, in our Christian lives, do again and again as we experience the regenerative work of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 5, 2007 | Childhood excitement, journaling, spiritual gifts
Jill Carattini is a senior writer for the Ravi Zacharias Int’l Ministries in Atlanta, Ga. I enjoy her columns greatly. She always seems to express so beautifully things that I have thought or felt.Her column today speaks of the delightful transparency of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 5, 2007 | books, mysticism, Prayer, transcendance
I was reading recently from How People Change by Timothy Lane and David Tripp. In it they describe some of the manifestations of “Christian externalism”, their description of the things people do to try to fill the “gospel gap” that subverts...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 25, 2007 | communication
I had the opportunity last week to perform a comedy routine at a women’s retreat. One of the lines in the routine has to do with friendship. It goes like this: “Friends are a lot like a parachute. If they’re not there the first time that you need...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2007 | Aging
In a class on adult ministry that I am taking we are in the unit on senior adults. There is a self-awareness inventory that asks us to indicate on a scale of 1-5 the number that best expresses our feelings between two extremes about the statement, “When I think...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 31, 2007 | Simplicity
I have had the spacious, dual-bowled, mirror-walled, garden- tubbed, glass-enclosure showered bathroom. Now, in our little two bedroom 1973 lakeside cottage we have two very efficient little 6’X8′-ish bathrooms. And I have rediscovered the joy of...
