by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 28, 2023 | recovery
Just an observation……double-minded thinking reflected in memes about addiction: In one post: “Addicts are good people…..they are victims of a disease and they can’t help it.” In the very next post “Recovery …is a choice,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 28, 2023 | spiritual discipline
“Into the solitary place we must walk with Jesus to learn the art of intimacy with God…… But in the biblical narrative, the words desert and wilderness are reflecting into Israel’s forty-year journey in the wilderness, wandering in covenant struggle...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 28, 2023 | healing
When Bill and I got Covid-19, 2 things were very clear. He was having a lot more respiratory problems with it than I was and it made my blood pressure drop so much I had to go off my anti-hypertensive meds for over a week. So, several months later when I watched one...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 28, 2023 | understand, Wisdom
Philippians 4:7 (The Message): “It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life!” One of the ways that you know Jesus is at the center of your life is you worry less. Worry is a sign that something has replaced him...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 27, 2023 | Holy Spirit
An observer of the Asbury Outpouring asked of another who wrote about it like a farmer measuring rainfall, “How do we discern true out pourings. Is it only subjective/emotional? Many are commenting that the reality of it will not be evident for some time to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 27, 2023 | judging
Sarah Westfall writes beautifully about a human failing called “Fundamental Attribution Error.” Most of us get caught up in a FAE at one time or another. It may be in an incidental momentary yank of the steering wheel as one overcompensates for a momentary...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 27, 2023 | story, The Church, timing, Truth, used by God, Worldview, worship
I turned 69 last week. I was 15, in Southwest GA, in 1969 when the events portrayed in this movie were going on. I saw it around the fringes. But the longing that drove it was present in me, too. It would be a long journey of 23 years before the longing in me was...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 25, 2023 | God's will, Holy Spirit, mind, nature, Purpose
A prayer partner, close confidential friend and I have a particular interest in scientific evidence of God’s work in creation, including some aspects of biblical numerology or what the Hebrews call “sacred geometry.”. She had sent me a brief video...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 24, 2023 | righteousness, spiritual life, Ten Commandments, theology, Wisdom
Someone asked me a few years ago about a quote attributed to Jesus, wanting to know the precise source and wording used in Scripture. The caller had heard the phrase at a funeral and wanted to remember exactly what it was this deceased friend had been heard to say...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 23, 2023 | Temptation
One teaching in the Word I’ve used for years is focused on rebellion and recovery and the causes and cure. We use a “15-minute Bible study” on the topic that was first published in In Touch magazine by Dr. Charles Stanley. The causes of rebellion he...
