by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2025 | books, change, community, culture, free speech, generations, healing, leadership, religious movements, Spiritual abuse, spiritual growth, Spirituality, Teaching, Uncategorized
“The human condition is not one of problem solving, of wanting to know better in order, then, to do better, but rather, to be human is to not to see that which is right in front of you.” Anne Kennedy, Demotivations, at Substack, on the horror of Nigerian genocide of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
CBByrd 9/27/25 In a 2022 devotional from seedbed.com JD Walt asked had we considered that the church has no “doctrine of love” and wouldn’t it be a good thing to have? I contemplated his question for several days before he got back to it later in a devotional in which...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 23, 2025 | Prayer, Purpose, redemption, social gospel, Spiritual abuse, spiritual battle, spiritual journey, Teaching, timing, witness, Worldview, woundedness, writing
“You were created to be a difference maker, making significant differences in the world. God is the source of your power, abilities, opportunities and even the desire to do good works. Philippians 2:13 states, “For It is God who works in you both to will...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 21, 2025 | Gratitude, grief, healing, heart, pets, Uncategorized
In early August, I observed a small umbilical hernia in my little Shih Tzu dog, Bitsy. The next week I had to go to Birmingham and I sent her to doggie daycare at our veterinarian’s office and asked them to check it. When I picked her up I talked to the doctor. She...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Jesus ministered to all – sinner and saved alike- everywhere he went. He fellowshipped with the disciples who were with him most of the time for 3 years. But he enjoyed close community with Peter, James and John They went places others didn’t and he showed...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 19, 2025 | self care, spiritual growth, Trust
WORDS OF WISDOM”The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”ERNEST HEMINGWAY I was very much one whose default mode was to trust others for many years. What made me a skeptic about trusting people for a few years was having some...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
To forgive 70×7 times means to forgive every time the remembrance of another’s offense comes to mind…. In other words, as many times as it takes until you are wholly free of it. It does not mean to keep putting yourself in front of the unrepentant and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
I read posts regularly chastising and warning others about not making judgments. Micah 6:8 proclaims to us: “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” How...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
August 2025 Activities 2 boxes of Titus 2 kitchenware, bag of towels, and wicker lingerie chest given to single adult woman setting up housekeeping. Bag of greeting cards and assorted sewing notions donated and delivered to senior disabled woman for craft making for...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Keep in mind, we are not aiming at a 50-50 mix of the two. This isn’t about living in the so-called “tension” or trying to find a “middle way” between them. It is 100%-100%—Word and Spirit bonded in an inseparable, indivisible nuptial union.” jdwalt Me, pondering….....
