by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
I watched a Louie Giglio sermon and he referenced several times “slipping into the flesh” due to giving into thoughts or old behavior habits…. It’s a day by day effort, even moment by moment. I have used this graphic for years in an attempt to help students understand...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Joy does not arrive with a fanfare,on a red carpet strewn with the flowers of a perfect life. Joy sneaks in, as you pour a cup of coffee,watching the sun hit your favourite tree, just right. And you usher joy away,because you are not ready for it.Your house is not as...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
This is a photo from today’s date, Sept 5, two years ago in 2022 of our great grandson being read to by his father. My granddaughter sent it out on our family text group back then. She said Lewis (15 months old at that time) loves to have the same book read to him...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
I saw this post today on social media “Memories”…. (From 8/31/2012 CBB) “We have a little one-eyed kitty we adopted in January of this year named Minnie. She got an injury to the cornea of her good eye and has been at the veterinarian now for a week in an attempt to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
(8/31/2017 CBB) Two headlines today: “Obama says sex education for kindergarteners is ‘right thing to do’ ” and “Two women gang-raped by 10-12 juveniles”. This is what happens when a society cultivates an appetite by sexualizing our...
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...
