by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 12, 2022 | reconciliation
On Secrets: “Some revelations stop relationships in their tracks. But others reveal the true person in our midst, the imperfect, limping, and often loving soul we cared about so much. And so we continue to care, and together we rebuild, this time slowly, on a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | Bible Study, courage, desiring God, God's will
In a recent devotional reflecting on Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego a writer pointed to the attitude of their hearts, submitted to the will of the King, even to death, in order to remain true to God. She quoted another writer on the difference between bold defiance...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | desires, righteousness, sanctification
The old adage, “Let your conscience be your guide” is as good as worthless unless one’s spirit and soul are operating under the authority of the Holy Spirit. I think of the conscience, a part of the soul, as a neutral tool that is programmed by the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | Wisdom, witness, women in ministry
1 Peter 2:13-21 and 3:1-7, among other scriptures, has been used by some to keep women in abusive relationships – as if that is where Jesus is calling them to suffer for Him.Jesus is not calling women to passively enable an abuser to remain unchallenged and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | Career, family, memories
3/10/2017 Bill and I had a conversation over lunch with our eldest granddaughter, age “almost 20” about the movie “Silence” and about theological implications of persevering in the faith, apostasy, being used by God in the most difficult of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | family, memories
3/10/2013 Middle grand girl, Haley has a volleyball tournament at Bay High today. With her parents out of town, I took her down at 7:00 a.m. We turned into the parking lot and I hear, “Uh oh. I forgot my shoes…” Me: “Shall we go back and get...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | discipleship training, discipline
Train, Discipline in Love or Dismiss? by Cathy Byrd Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Recovery work with broken...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | desires, emotions, grief, Prayer
3/10/2017 A young man with whom Bill and I had some personal experience in our work with the Rescue Mission 4-5 years ago and who later continued his efforts in substance abuse recovery through another men’s program was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | names, trees
3/10/2019 In addition to a huge pine tree ( to which I say good riddance!), the numerous oaks and the palm tree we lost in Hurricane Michael, I lost a nice sized English dogwood, 2 cedars, several sago palms and azaleas, a crepe myrtle, several bridal wreath shrubs, a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | appearances, lake, life change, nature
Three years ago, March 10, 2019, I noted these first blooms on the flowering almond shrub at Deerpoint Lake. Last year on the same date I stopped by the our then vacant house to check on this shrub and enjoy the signs of spring…….. An old fashioned shrub...
