by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 7, 2022 | culture, family, perseverance
A Blank Book of Pages The first school in which we enroll, and the most important in shaping our future, is our home. A casual view of modern TV shows might lead us to believe that parents don’t matter. I contend that nothing matters more. When Benjamin West was a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 28, 2022 | children's ministry
On babies in church…… July 5, 2014 Today I was cleaning out some old files in my garage. Several notebooks needed to be gone through before being thrown out. One was a Children’s Ministry notebook. In 2008, I was completing a series of certification...
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 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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 20, 2019 | Lifestyle Choices
In the mid-70’s my husband, Bill and I were friends with a couple whose children played with our children. They lived a few blocks from us. The husband and I worked at the same hospital in the same department. I was a medical technology intern and he was a physician...