by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | Christmas, memories, tradition
1/2/17 CBB When dismantling all the “Christmas” around our house, I generally wind up forgetting one or more small things tucked away here or there. Tonight I realized I had three little glass trees in the hutch in the kitchen. I was picking them up when...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | Emotional Literacy, emotions, Teaching
Why we include emotional literacy, values education, sharing our lives as well as our testimony, and the importance of interdependent living at Titus 2: CBB 1/2/20 The Most Private is Often What Resonates the Strongest The pyschologist Carl Rogers, a person who would...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | heart of God, knowing, theology
As we seek God, at the border of the Holy we are invited to commune with our Creator, glimpsing His realm, where we are received with joy and loving-kindness that is beyond anything that can be known in this realm! 12/31/21 CBB Screenshot
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
CBB. 1/2/23 A year ago, after the Webb Space Telescope launch, I wrote this based on multiple news reports….. “NASA has hired a team of theologians, led by Reverend Dr. Andrew Davison, to guide humankind through potential worldview-shattering information that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | blessing, Prayer
Daily Blessing….. Susie Larson. 1/2/23 “May you learn how to walk in the authority Christ has entrusted to you. May you speak PEACE to your soul and PERFECT LOVE to your fears. May you refuse discouragement simply because courage fits you better. May you walk...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | Comfort, love, marriage, memories, writing
1/2/2015….(a memory recalled 1/2/23) “We had a pull chain come out of the light fixture on a ceiling fan. Bill took it apart, figured out what to do, ordered a replacement part for less than $5.00, had it in two days, and installed it this afternoon. Call me...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | understand, Wisdom, Words and Writing, writing
Reflection from a 1/2/2022…. still true. There are some who are imprisoned behind bars. Others are imprisoned behind masks. Still others are imprisoned by their own choices. Christ came to set the prisoner free. It doesn’t matter what chains are holding...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | Wisdom, worship
I love this! CBB 1/2/24
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 31, 2025 | Friendship, Prayer, time, tradition, writing
12/31/25. CBB My grandson -in-law asked me yesterday if I was making any New Year’s resolutions. I told him, “No. I don’t do resolutions. A friend and I do prayer requests. She and I shared prayer requests last year for what we hoped God would do in the year ahead....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 31, 2025 | discipleship training, John 17:6-26, spiritual life, Teaching
12/31/2025. CBB. Report of a text conversation with a friend with whom I have journeyed over a number of years…. This is what discipling the “self” in others looks like out of one’s own experience of being discipled in Christ by His Holy Spirit.Sister-Friend; Happy...
