About the Author
Cathy Boyd Byrd invites others to join her in considering topics of interest to those on the Christian spiritual journey…..discipleship, spirituality, mental health, Christian growth, and Bible study. Cathy enjoys working with others as they transition from emotional emergency and brokenness to spiritual emergence and abundant living! Many of the topics about which Cathy writes are interrelated as experienced in her own life and in the lives of those with whom she works in counseling, teaching, and case management, and in friendships. She believes that sharing our journey of Christian growth and spirituality helps us know God and ourselves better and connects us with others!
Cathy is a Christian Educator and Life Recovery Counselor, and an ordained deacon through Christian Leaders Institute. She serves as Community Outreach MInister at Lynn Haven United Methodist Church. She is a student (disciple) of the Holy Spirit and shares with her students (disciples) the things the Lord teaches her through Bible study and contemplation, incorporating experiences interpreted through the Word, cherished traditions of her faith, and reasoning that comes from seeking the mind of Christ in accountable community. She was widowed in August 2020 after 48 years of marriage to Bill Byrd, is mother of 2 and grandmother of 5. Her journey of faith has been lifelong and continues to be an adventure with the trailblazer and guide, Jesus Christ!
Cathy is the founder and program manager for a Christian women’s residential life recovery program, Titus 2 Partnership, Inc.(www.titus2.life) in Panama City, Florida.
God’s Word: A Sword, A Sickle, Or A Plowshare
From July 2, 2017: "On March 20,1997, as I drove home from a work appointment God directed my attention to this field, freshly plowed, along the roadside of Highway 231 South, just north of Cottondale. As I glanced toward it, God suddenly spoke in my heart, "This is you." It was so clear and piqued my interest. When I got home I read a number of scriptures about ploughed fields, the land, etc. 1 Corinthians 3:9 says," For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building." It doesn't get much clearer than that! The next day I drove back there, stood on top of my car,...
The Battle Is Real
When we have done what we believe God has led us to do, sometimes the best thing remaining for us to do is leave people in God’s hands rather than pull them out of situations where he has let them go…..some may misunderstand this, but we at Titus 2 Partnership, Inc., a Ministry For Women, believe that those who seek life-recovery at our ministry are brought to us by God. As God told me years ago, he simply asked me to get up each day and seek his will and he would bring them to me. I have trusted that and continue to do so. Shared from Facebook. Author: Kimberly Henderson, Proverbs 31...
On Fulfillment OF The Dream
I had a dream. But it wasn't one I dreamed last night. It was one God buried deep within me, like a treasure hidden in my soul while I was being knit together, formed in my Mother's womb. It found its way into my consciousness in 1997, when I was 43. It was so big and so audacious and so beautiful that my heart and mind nearly failed under the weight of it. But there it was. I whispered it to a doctor in a psychiatric hospital when the weight of its growing presence inside me would have seemed to take my breath away. But before it could, God had taken me aside and spoken quietly in my...
Locked Gates or Open Minds
The meme above is from a beautiful second cousin of mine in Oklahoma... Robyn Baldwin Langston From thoughts in my own journal 12/13/03: .....I was in prayer for a weekend retreat and as a part of my prayer time, I re-read the story of the walk to Emmaus. When I got to the end I read “He opened their minds to understanding the scriptures” (Luke 24:45) and suddenly I thought an open mind is not a bad thing if it is opened by Christ for a specific purpose- to understand the Scriptures. "An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations...
Grandparenting
........"My Grandmother."........That is the most common answer. "To what?", you might ask? To the question: "Who represented Christ for you in your life? Who showed you something of God's character when you were growing up? Who has had an impact in teaching you what you believe about God?" This is the follow up series of questions to my first two questions in this part of the interview: "Are you a spiritual person? What does that mean to you?" If they say yes and give some kind of definition of their spirituality, the next question is about where that came from. These are the questions that...
God, Do Something!
A young man who started college this year wrote about his first semester experience, making the transition from high school friends to new friends in college, and finding God at work in new relationships: "God used the people we loved to answer our prayers." Some women in a group were talking about prayer last week and the statement was made that if one is going to pray for God to do something about a situation or to help someone, we have to be willing to be used by God as part of the answer to that prayer. Another person remembered the song by Matthew West, "Do Something": I woke up this...
Only One Answer
At www.spiritandtruth.life Matt Reynolds's diagnosis and prescription for the current state of the Church seems to sum up the same thing that the Lord has taught me and confirmed again and again through the last 32 years as a born-again evangelical believer. Answers will not be found in technology, perseverance, creative campaigns, or any other human effort. I attempted to link the article here but had difficulty, so I copied and pasted it here: The Answer Is That We Are Out of Answers Photo by Lubo Minar on Unsplash "As long as I have been alive the church has been largely in...
God’s Promises to Abraham Fulfilled In Family Prayers
At 3:23 A.M. today, 6/27/2022, the Lord woke me up reflecting on the past week's event.... a devotional from The Seedbed Daily Text on Thursday,, 6/23, and the Dobbs case decision from the Supreme Court of the US on Friday, and the alignment of the two with the graphic way God has given me to think about "family." First: some background: Philip Kosloski - published on 05/15/17 "The ancient symbol permeates Christian art all over the world. It is extremely common to walk into a Catholic church and see the letters IHS etched on a crucifix or prominently featured in a stained glass window....
Papal Proclamation on “Church”
In the Pope's General Address in St. Peter's Square yesterday, (This post was originally written 6/26/2014) he pointed out the necessity of connection with church....."We have seen that God gathered a people to himself in the Old Testament and in the fullness of time sent his Son to establish the Church as the sacrament of unity for all humanity. God calls each of us to belong to this great family. None of us become Christians on our own; we owe our relationship with God to so many others who passed on the faith, who brought us for Baptism, who taught us to pray and showed us the beauty of...
“I’m Only Human”
Jesus also told them to "go and sin no more.." If they continued sinning he didn't love them less, but they were not included in the fellowship of followers or given the keys to the kingdom.....two parts to relationship with God.... his unconditional love (without a doubt) and also his requirement for hungering and thirsting for righteousness in order to enjoy his fellowship and the blessings that come from close communion..... We cannot lose his love, but we can forfeit his fellowship. Many scriptures that people cite cite are about fellowship with God being broken, not love...