by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 9, 2025 | Mental Health, mind, self care, self worth, spiritual growth, Teaching, Uncategorized
“My therapist told me something that hit harder than I expected: She said: “People-pleasing isn’t really about pleasing others. It’s about controlling their perception of you.” And then she looked at me and said: “It’s what happens when fear starts driving—fear of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 7, 2025 | Prayer, spiritual life, Teaching, Wisdom, witness
I heard a pastor say, somewhat dismissively? how he dislikes hearing people say, “I am with you in spirit!” He said we know that one’s human spirit cannot be in two places at once since to be “absent from the body is to be present with the Lord,” i.e., as in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 6, 2025 | Bible Study, Teaching, witness
Exposure-> Hear and see. Curiosity-> Ask and explore. Information-> Gather facts. Understanding-> Discuss and consider. Knowledge-> Owned understanding. Desire-> “Hunger and thirst.” Insights-> Human reasoning. Wisdom-> Godly illumination. Abiding-> Led by...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 2, 2025 | Baptism, Teaching
Received out of the blue in email from an unknown individual : From: **************@******.comSent: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 11:52:21 PMTo: Cathy Byrd <cathybyrd@titus2.life>Subject: Question – Conversion to Christianity Dear Pastor Cathy...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 30, 2025 | Ministry, self-awareness, spiritual formation, Teaching, Titus 2 Partnership, Twelve Step recovery
“Do you struggle with the distance between what you thought would be and what is? Disappointment is sometimes God‘s way of leading you home. It is not proof that God is withholding something good from you. Disappointment can be a gift from God that feels nothing like...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 30, 2025 | Ministry, Titus 2 Partnership
Made referral to local church resources to secure apartment furnishings for agency and individuals working with a homeless older female with disability in Florida. Taught 2 sessions of 4 classes at three recovery programs- Sept. 4-5 and Sept. 25-26. Hope Inspired...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 30, 2025 | attributes of Christ, Bible Study, Teaching
“In John’s gospel, Jesus says 7 “I am” statements about his unique identity. I am the bread of lifeI am the light of the worldI am the doorI am the good shepherdI am the resurrection and the lifeI am the way, the truth, & the lifeI am the true...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2025 | grief, healing
Here are seven helpful tips to process grief: 1. It’s important to acknowledge and honor your feelings, even if you can’t fully feel them. Avoiding or suppressing emotions can cause more harm than good. 2. Move your body and get outside. Shift your focus from...
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 | John Wesley, love
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...
