by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 6, 2022 | forgiveness
A friend told me about a young man, a veteran of the US’s Afghanistan war, who admitted having a great deal of anger and unforgiveness that led him to drunken rages. When she talked to him about about forgiveness he told her God had allowed him to not forgive....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 6, 2022 | disappointment, spiritual battle
How many have noticed that, when one has a significant victory in the Kingdom that leads to peace and reconciliation, pretty close on its heels comes a sneak attack from the enemy that is sometimes so subtle and unexpected that it just brings one to her knees? That...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 6, 2022 | action
Each new day is an invitation to join God in abundant life…. I had a busy day but not a minute was rushed or anything less than holy……I had blessings in conversations where I was able to speak God’s Word into at least 6 lives with hope, joy,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 6, 2022 | self-awareness, serenity, sleep
…”forces of culture insist we give up an hour of sleep here, or two hours there—the grinding schedules, the unnerving stock piles of e-mail in need of responses, the early-taught/early-learned push for more and more productivity.” Thus, author and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2022 | heart, love, theology
In a recent devotional from seedbed.com JD Walt asked had we considered that the church has no “doctrine of love” and wouldn’t it be a good thing to have? I contemplated his question for several days before he got back to it today in a devotional in which he shared a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2022 | Childhood excitement
“Christ has truly given the world permission to touch, to experience, to jump completely into the great and wonderful kingdom in which God reigns. In this kingdom, we can be as children who delight in knowing life with dirty hands, who like Thomas need the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2022 | Beatitudes
“The Beatitudes aren’t a list of activities but a character profile for one who is becoming more like Jesus.” 4/4/2016 JD Walt, seedbed.com When the LORD showed me this truth about the Beatitudes in 2002 as I studied his Word, I was totally...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2022 | peace
“Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 3, 2022 | redemption
This was posted by a young friend of mine who certainly has worked through a lot that she never deserved and for which she never got an apology…..When I saw this it occurred to me that Jesus’ death on the cross was a choice by him to accept the sins of all...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 3, 2022 | action, counseling
When a child is silenced by threats of harm to his/her loved ones by an abuser or a parent chooses to believe and stay with an abuser because of her co-dependent needs instead of her responsibility to her child’s protection or even accuses her child of seducing...
