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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 26, 2022 | Holy Spirit, sanctification
In writing about spiritual formation under the authority of the Hily Spirit, JD Walt, author of the Seedbed Daily text wrote: “There is a missing middle movement here. It is the Holy Spirit’s work of actuation. This will require the development of the most...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 26, 2022 | blessing, Grace, promises
Question from a friend: God told his people he’d restore what the locusts took and told Job he’d restore his joy and he also made promises to Abraham and Moses and others. Just because he did it for them doesn’t mean he’ll do it for...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 25, 2022 | repentance
There was a news story a few years ago about a father who had exercised public “shaming” of his daughter who had habitually stolen from and lied to her parents and others. The teen was forced to wear a sign in a public area. Her father videoed it and...
