by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 26, 2022 | growth, redemption
Humanity and its earthly habitat, which God called “very good” soon got off track in Eden due to men’s and women’s lack of experience with a crafty low-life character who had been exiled from holy Heaven to this new earthly...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | home
Someone posted a cartoon on Facebook about a man not remembering if he put the toilet seat down or not the night before. As he walked into the bathroom his wife is down IN the toilet. It made me laugh. In the 8 years we’ve lived in our little house at Deerpoint...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | family, home, marriage
History on my favorite “rock”….Bill and I had come through a rough stretch in our marriage 16 years ago. We had worked through it and were studying Ray Vander Laan’s “Faith Lessons from the Holy Land” video Bible study at Sunday...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | Suffering
So many of the girls and boys affected by childhood sexual abuse will wind up further vicitimized by their inability to find freedom from the shame and hurt and will wind up living lives of addiction to substances or promiscuity or further abuse. Secrets and shame...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | home
3/24/16 My husband is so funny. Last night I got home and found his laundry on the laundry room floor by the washer. I thanked him for bringing it there for me and sorted it and started the first load. He said nothing. This morning we’re getting up and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | Prayer, spiritual life, writing
Bill shared part of his morning study group’s discussion on Judges: Principles of Victory: “The right prayer might not be, “Lord, take this away” but “Lord, use this as a way through the brokenness of my life right now, to shine Your...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | scripture, Worldview
“in heaven and on earth and under the earth”….that’s an odd phrase, don’t you think?. What does “under the earth” mean, especially in light of the other two phrases with which it appears (in context, so to speak.) Is this a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | work
Two years ago, on 3/24/2020, as COVID was ramping up snd gallivanting across the globe, a FB friend posted this: “Who has what is deemed an “essential” job during these times? What do you do?” Me: “… I introduce people to Jesus…....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Written 3/24/17 ….Speaking of “reality”, I had one of those little metal signs in my laundry area that said, “Do not adjust your attitude. The problem is with reality.” It made me laugh and yet, at the same time seemed to express the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | home, journaling
I have a limited edition print (75/500) called “The Old Woman” painted by Mary Shelton Burson in 1982. The date on the print is 11/20/1990. You can see she is sitting in a wheelbarrow reading something. I bought it, probably in 1990, from a friend who was...
