by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 20, 2008 | pets
Our two little chihuahua guests have settled in and seem to be thriving. A local veterinarian has agreed to take care of spaying and neutering them for free. We’ll get them current on their shots. A non-profit pet adoption service has agreed to assist in finding...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 15, 2008 | domestic violence, pets
Domestic violence is hard on everyone, including the pets of children. Tonight I have two small canines camping in my sunroom in a crate because two adults couldn’t live together in a civil manner. Now the mom and children are in safe shelter, Dad’s who...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 10, 2008 | Career
Next week marks the mid point of this term in graduate school. I’m putting in hours at a local day center for homeless persons. It’s sort of a social work triage center. The case workers there have to be prepared for almost anything on any given day-...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 26, 2008 | answers to prayer
I’m into the second week of the next to the last term of my graduate work. This term includes an onsite practicum. It took me over two weeks of effort at first one agency, then another, to secure a practicum contract. Last Thursday, with the first week’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 15, 2008 | 1 John 2:16, Addictions, Luke 4:18, Matthew 4:2-10
For several years I have taught about 1 John 2:16 where John says “all that is in the world – lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life….”. As I have contemplated the various temptations that plague humanity, it does seem that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 28, 2008 | decisions
For two and a half years I’ve been involved in taking one online class per semester from Columbia College’s eChristianEducation program in pursuit of certification as a Christian educator with the United Methodist Church. I am half way through the final...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 26, 2008 | Grace
I am a subscriber to the daily Purpose Driven Life devotionals and it just so happens that Pastor Jon Walker is today addressing the same thing that was on my heart yesterday as I wrote about “Extra Grace Required” people! So I’m sharing his...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 25, 2008 | Grace
Rev. Rick Warren has added yet another regularly used acronym to my vocabulary…..”EGR”, thanks to his use of it in his wildly successful Purpose Driven Life book. An “EGR” is an “Extra Grace Required” person in one’s...
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...
