by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 31, 2022 | emotions, Uncategorized
Feeling shame, in and of itself, is not bad. In fact, as Dr. Sally Satel notes in this brief excerpt from a longer interview, shame is a good indicator of an active conscience. What we do with our feelings of shame divides victims from overcomers. Victims allow their...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 31, 2022 | woundedness
The lie men tell little girls when they are grooming them and earning their trust and loyalty: “You didn’t do anything wrong.” And when an abusive controlling ‘boyfriend” turns his “girlfriend” into his pimped out asset and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 31, 2022 | Idolatry
“Boston pastor Adam Mabry’s book Stop Taking Sides reminded Christians to take elections seriously, but also “trust Jesus, receive peace, and refuse the anxiety that betrays an innate political idolatry.” I never thought about how “anxiety betrays an innate idolatry…....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 30, 2022 | Ministry
Last night a friend an I went to Niceville for an event in support of a new entrepreneurial women’s transitional residence ministry. It has been in the planning for several years, arising out of one woman’s passion, experience, and calling… We are...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 30, 2022 | Faith, Friendship, grief, Holy Spirit
I have written before about the phenomenon of observing light in a person. The first time I witnessed it was in 1995. It was in an individual with terminal cancer with whom I had prayed for months about issues of unforgiveness. I had been under a heavy burden of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 28, 2022 | Grace, sanctification
Justification is a solitary covenant with God. He extends grace to us e RN when we are still in our sin. We repent and receive it by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Sanctification is a communal process of shared covenant to encourage and live out the “one...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 27, 2022 | family
“Flawed Families of the Bible”…..a very interesting book that shows a variety of multi-generational dysfunctions, but with God’s grace co-mingled so that ultimately, good results. An interesting lesson in “Flawed Families of the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 26, 2022 | Ministry
From 7/19/2018: Counseling, case management, and advocacy…..knowing which role to take when is a matter for prayer. What some don’t understand is that when I stand in the gap for someone, I have spent hours and hours in the spiritual and emotional...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 26, 2022 | trees
7/26/2016 I loved watching a TED talk today at lunch by Suzanne Simard about her 30 years of research in forests in Canada on how trees communicate with one another and transfer molecular nutrients through microrhizzal networks. I’m an arboreal...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 26, 2022 | Teaching, witness
Sean Dietrich this week wrote about boiled peanuts. His memoir made me smile as I, too, have stopped many times at roadside vendors and bought a bagful to eat while traveling in Alabama! It also reminded of a talk I gave at a retreat in 2001 that I began with a...
