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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
This it a liturgy I pulled together years ago for our Titus 2 students, first as a celebration for completing 12-step work, then as a way of reflecting on the changes they had made in the year closing and embracing the New Year with hope and anticipation….. Worship...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 27, 2025 | The Church, theology, Worldview
This….. earnestly believed, clearly articulated, demonstrably practiced, generously shared…. is what I came to expect from, longed for and sought in the Wesleyan tradition of Christian practice to which I came as an adult in 1972 and which I found among some who...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 27, 2025 | family, tradition, Words and Writing, worship
The family Christmas Eve activity at our daughter’s house last night after a top-notch dinner of her homemade gumbo, spinach salad, and French bread was each person sharing a poem around the table. Tim shared a short AI generated Christmas poem. Brady shared a fun...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 25, 2025 | Ministry, Titus 2 Partnership
Titus 2 Ministry Activities December 2025 Completed Meals on Wheels monthly delivery to 13 households 12/3 Assisted young mother starting job with securing 3 required colors of collared style shirts from a clothes closet and provided a Walmart gift card to purchase...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 25, 2025 | memories, time
Time is a strange thing when filtered through the lens of memory. “I had thought that Bill’s cousin, Dr. Bobby Echols, died on Thanksgiving weekend and that this Thanksgiving (2019) would be 2 years. Bobby’s sister, Debra Echols Turner, texted me this past week with a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 20, 2025 | lifestyles, seasons, writing
What an utterly beautiful winter solstice weekend in the Heart of Dixie! I bought a new Burford Holly and planted it. (Not prickly!). And I planted a Peggy Martin Rose I’d bought around Thanksgiving and wove it into the garden arch. I refilled bird feeders and got a...
