by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 19, 2023 | marriage
As a significant date is near……remembering. 7/22/22 is the 50 year anniversary of marriage to Bill, my husband who died of COVID 8/6/20, 2 weeks after our 48th. Marriage is a journey in growing individually, together, and in Christ. There’s nothing...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 19, 2023 | Suffering
Loss and lament bring opportunities to be drawn deeper into the loving heart of God the Father, into the mind of Jesus Christ Man of Sorrows, into the comfort of the Holy Spirit consolation…….who know both intimately. (CBByrd 7/19/22) Tonight a small group...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 15, 2023 | Teaching
Here’s another “ponderable” that arose from a conversation today….One person has stated that “life is a test” and she sees everything through the lens of being tested. I asked if she felt the tests were from the devil or from God....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 14, 2023 | Bible Study
Ephesians 4:11-13 NIV So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 13, 2023 | Ministry
Of the many objections that some members of the Board of Ministry of The UMC lobbed at me one after another over the final three years of the nine year journey in its determination to thwart my pursuit of ordination, perhaps the most amusing was that I lacked...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 12, 2023 | healing, holiness, memories, worship
Our daughter drove me to the outpatient surgery center in Birmingham, AL this morning for the planned thyroid right lobectomy. We arrived at the door promptly at 5 a.m. and I was registered, gowned, and waiting for the anesthesiologist and surgeon pre-op review and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 9, 2023 | family, growth
Elisabeth Elliot Quotes “There comes a time – many times, actually – in the lives of our children where we have to put the basket in the water. We have to let go and trust the plan of the Father. The world is a scary place – a place where we fear our...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 9, 2023 | God's attributes
One of my very favorite devotional writers- Jill Carattini always challenges one to think! And one of my favorite topics….the revelation of God in Christ! Minds Upset Wherever one might be in declarations of belief, God is so often not the God these declarations...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 9, 2023 | conflict
“God is not political. He doesn’t take a “side” other than His own will and His own glory. As His creation, God wants man’s politics to be seasoned with grace, concern, love for our fellow people, and a willingness to work out our differences without being...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 9, 2023 | boundaries, heart
Lord, teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them. Give me the spirit of the boy Samuel when he said to You, “Speak, for Your servant hears.” Let me hear You speaking in my...
