by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
(8/31/18. CBB) I serve a useful purpose in life…..I give lots of people the opportunity to explore and practice forgiveness! A friend shared this bit of wisdom she had seen: ”Just saw this quote on my friend’s page…..”“Fellowship with God and being useful to Him does...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
(8/31/19) Yesterday I had a sudden, bona fide all-out, in-my-face panic response to an emotional trigger. I logically knew what was happening to me physiologically and emotionally and could not stop it. I’ve watched enough people in panic and waited it out with them...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Honesty is such a candidly refreshing thing…. and stands out like a beautiful flowering tree when observed in someone whose otherwise anonymous posture is not forced to tender it. A mere penny’s worth of honesty is so much more valuable than a bank account full...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
In Matthew 22:27 Jesus gives a concise summary of the Old Testament Law and Prophets in response to the cagey goading of the Pharisees: 34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
(CBB 8/31/22) Does anything say, “Go ahead, underestimate me….let’s see what happens”….. than the slight forward lean of the torso and head, set of the jaw, scrutinizing look of the eyes, Mona Lisa-esque non-committal mouth, and crossed arms of this...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
My eyes opened as my waking consciousness stirred from slumber. I looked toward the ceiling at the red projection of the time from the bedside clock. My Mother had given it to Bill and me as a Christmas gift at some point in the last ten or so years. ”4:44”- an...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
It appears that this blog has been hit by a large number of bots….fake users intended to take down the system . Therefore I am deleting all subscribers at this time. Those of you who are real persons will know where to fine me.😊
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
🐝Some interesting facts about bees 🐝 Here are 20 interesting facts about the importance of honey and bees: Did you know that honey never spoils? Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible!...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once wrote, “Humor is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer.”2 Now, of course, many circumstances are not laughing matters; for those, only faith is up to the task. But often, when faced with challenges and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
“The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, I will love this person because I need them. Or, I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want. This isn’t love at all...
