by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 17, 2022 | counseling, justice
Days can grow long dealing with an advocacy issue on behalf of an individual or family. Pray for those who are unjustly treated at the hands of people who want them out of their way and those who are too busy or too inconsiderate to care. It is amazing how a matter...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 17, 2022 | Mental Health, The Church
from 7/17/21: A friend posted a very good, sensitive, and encouraging post about being understanding and kind to people who take mental health medications. This has been one of my soapbox issues for many years. Telling people that if they “took care of themselves”, or...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 17, 2022 | doctrine
“Do you desire to know the truth?” THIS is the truth of the human condition….. You may think you are a “good” person, but as Jesus observed, “None is good. No, not one.” The heart , above all things, is deceitful. Because of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 17, 2022 | family, Granny Boyd
Add to “Things I Never Knew” …… My paternal great grandmother, (the Carroll family side) who died when my grandmother and her sister were less than 10, was Cherokee Indian. A cousin has done some family geneology and told me today….Great...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 17, 2022 | Wisdom
I gave a devo this morning on 2 prayers in the Psalms-88 & 86. I included something a pastor told me several times…”There are 2 prayers God always answers- for wisdom and for salvation.” As I reflected on his words this week, it seemed to me that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 15, 2022 | recovery, relapse
I have been advocating for addressing nicotine concurrently with other chemical addictions since I began in addiction recovery counseling in 2008. When I was able to start a program myself, smoke-free recovery was one of the criteria I insisted on. It was NOT a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Here’s “ponderable” that arose from a conversation …One person has stated that “life is a test” and she sees everything through the lens of being tested. I asked if she felt the tests were from the devil or from God....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 12, 2022 | redemption
“The first Adam fell from his humanity from eating a proscribed meal he was forbidden to eat. The last Adam showed us how to rise to our humanity from eating a prescribed meal we are bidden to eat.” Leonard Sweet There is such beauty in the many ways we...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 10, 2022 | Faith, love, righteousness
Someone posted a meme in social media about the mark of Christianity being the ability to love Judas as well as Jesus. I actually have considered that before. If satan had to ask to sift Peter, then he would have also had to ask permission of the sovereign God to sift...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 9, 2022 | Bible Study
This morning’s Wayside topic: setting out on journeys…..from “Bible Notes by the Wayside” by Rev. Horatio Hackett, written in 1852 following several months of travel in the Holy Land. He writes about the story of Jesus’ parents starting...
