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.
Visit With Mentor
From 3/29/15 my journal: "I had the opportunity to visit briefly with a former mentor who now lives a good distance away. I was giving an update on the Titus 2 ministry and I said that my call is to minister to the "ones" and "twos" and "threes" to a depth and over enough time to have reasonable assurance that the seed of the Gospel has taken root and they have learned to walk in the Spirit as maturing disciples. He expressed the opinion that such ministry is really the way all meaningful spiritual transformation occurs. And also said that while professions of faith are good, The real proof...
Married Student Life
3/29/2022- ....driving to the community dumpster and bank of mailboxes at 8:30 pm to drop off garbage bag and retrieve mail….As I drove there I realized it was 1972, 103 Beech Street in Auburn, AL, the last time we lived in high density housing. Retirement at Waterfall Townhomes, however, compared to married students housing at college is a good bit more spacious, stylish, personally accommodating, and is absolutely free of roaches!!! The comparison between the two housing complexes 50 years apart made me smile. We were happy as newlyweds there and then….
Adding Abigail
https://disciplerofself.com/women-in-ministry/bathsheba/ I had previously written about Bathsheba and Eve, in discussing their roles and those of the men associated with each woman in the sins committed by each and who, in God's opinion appears to have been held accountable. There is an interesting story in 1Samuel of another man and woman. Abigail and Nabaal... 2 A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. 3 His name was Nabal and his wife’s name...
Gathering With The Saints
From 3/28/21.... I come to gather with the saints on Sundays….. that is what followers of Christ are called in Scripture. I come to encourage and be encouraged. I come with my Bible in hand and a highlighter and pen. I have something in hand to jot down notes and thoughts that God stirs in my mind and which I am likely to reflect on further in the week ahead. I expect the God of Heaven to speak to me…. in his Word, by his Spirit, through his people, and in the circumstances of the moment. He does not fail me! When the fire of his Spirit sweeps through our congregation with power snd might,...
Met By Christ At Communion
From 3/28/2022..... Do not be anxious about anything, for I care for you……. I felt the love of Christ wrap around and embrace me as I took communion last night among my brothers and sisters in Christ. This is the Presence, power, and security of abiding in Him. I felt, too, the love of my husband, Bill, with whom I had shared in communion and the abiding of Christ with us for 48 years. I had written about the experience of meeting Christ in the moment of receiving the elements last night while still sitting in the parking lot after this Holy Week Communion Service.#HolyWeek "Tonight we...
Fathers and Sons, and Fathers and Sons…..
https://firebrandmag.com/articles/what-did-abraham-know-reflections-on-intimacy-and-surrender I was surprised by Rachel Coleman's article in Firebrandmag.com, "What Did Abraham Know?". She says that her flight of imagination and this question arose after a pastor's sermon suggested Abraham's experience with God prior to Mount Moriah and the call to sacrifice Isaac was inadequate and his trust in God was tested and molded by that experience. I had watched the recent movie about Abraham's journey to Mount Moriah, "His Only Son," and , like Ms. Coleman and the movie's producer, I believe...
God Goes Where He Is Wanted, Welcomed, Received
While at Seedbed.com's New Room Leaders gathering in NC in February, David Goodnight heard a message from the Lord that really struck him and this is the basis of a prayer. he offered a few weeks later in an online event.David Goodnight's words : "Before the beginning of the creation of man and since, our God has been regularly, repeatedly, routinely rejected. He was rejected by 1/3 of the angels and by Satan, who fell from heaven. He was rejected within a generation of creating man by tragedy in the first family. He was rejected at the time of Noah by virtually all of mankind. He was...
Dreams and Spiritual Battle
From 3/23/23.....A dream. Journaling dreams can be a wonderful exercise... I had one last night. I'm still pondering what it can mean!!?! It was about my son hosing out my garage and rats from the neighbors garage coming to eat out of a dog food bag in my garage.....(and I don't even have a dog!) and a neighbor's dogs coming and moving into my house and I'm trying to get rid of dogs and rats! LOL! I've been working on clearing out and organizing my garage for a couple of weeks. I think the dream indicates I'm losing the battle alone and need some help! 🤣 A friend replied to my post:...
Secrecy And Shame
Hint: When someone tells you not to "tell anyone" about something they have done to you or someone else that causes harm, unless it is accompanied by a sincere apology and assurance that it won't happen again, tell them you will not keep their secrets. And if harm has been perpetrated against an innocent or vulnerable person unable to speak for herself or is a repeat offense after a warning, shout it from the rooftops. Mordecai did not hesitate to wear sackcloth and ashes and mourn loudly in the midst of the people when Haman carried out his vile plan against the people of God with the...
Accountability And Support
(CBB-3/23/2016) Accountability and Support: Jesus' act of sending his disciples out 2X2. "Wherever 2 or 3 gather in my name, I am there." Matthew 18:20 Ecclesiastes 4:12And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. Who are your accountability and support partners? Who prays for you? Who has refrigerator rights to tell you when something is stinky or has been held onto for too long? Or drink deeply of the joy and celebration of life with you?