by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 22, 2022 | Friendship, memories
Tribe of spiritual mothers who took me in during my 40’s and taught me that we need never do life alone……loved me out of fear of being alone and into belonging to community of interdependent faith in Christ! I watched as four of them modeled the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 20, 2022 | family, recovery
Many times I have counseled a person with a dysfunctional family member or close friend that she is not likely to be the one God will use to address this family member’s issues, no matter how much she loves the individual, can see the issues, and wants to help....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 20, 2022 | Holy Spirit
Jesus’ words do not always come to us in seeming gentleness and with hope, but convicting and with warning…….unless we are able to read with hearts that are open to his own heart, with minds that desire to know his own mind. I”m preaching on...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 18, 2022 | sanctification, scripture
Joni Eareckson Tada writes in her online devotional from 8/18/2014: Experiencing Christ “I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 18, 2022 | Beatitudes, Bible Study
Today our devotional journey with Elijah and the widow of Zarephath continued as he asked her for water and a small cake of bread…. What she discovers in accommodating the request of Elijah is a glory story from which we may all learn… 1 Kings 17:12-14 12...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 17, 2022 | The Church
Thoughts about “Church”- Ekklesia- Greek word for congregation, church Ecclesiology- originally it meant the furnishings and liturgies of the church. Now it generally means the study of the church, beliefs about the church, and how the church is intended...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 17, 2022 | decisions
I am, once again, at a point of facing a challenge……one with a deadline as well. It is a familiar challenge….a place I’ve been several times. I know that God is with me, but I still have to do the work. I would rather have a short cut…..a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 17, 2022 | giving
I was reading a missionary’s account of coming to a people who were struggling in the midst of a famine….even the pastor in the community had died of starvation. Yet, when he arrived he was greeted with a basket of food that would have sustained an entire...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 17, 2022 | forgiveness, Trust
A family member of someone struggling with addiction asked me last week how she could ever trust the addict again. I said, “what makes you think you must?” In my study of the Bible I don’t find instruction that we are to trust other people. Again and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 17, 2022 | Idolatry, Pain
Sudden disclosures that challenge one’s foundation and trust in people she has loved all her life can be an emotional ambush that destabilizes her whole life. It can lead to confusion, grief, and relapse in addiction. But when one has a firm foundation in Christ and...
