by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 23, 2015 | Faith, family
This Advent season has had me reflecting on the concept of “family” and “home”, both on behalf of the Titus 2 women and for myself. I was reading a review of a book that stated, “The author of Keeping the Feast connects the metaphor of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 2, 2015 | spiritual life
What a blessing it is to have a close spiritual friend, actually a couple of them or a handful of them, with whom one can share the joys and hurts of life! There are some of us, (okay, Sisters, you know who you are) who process emotions and seek understanding by...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 26, 2015 | Addictions, recovery
Jesus told a parable: “There was a man who had a demon cast out. The evil spirit wandered in the wilderness. It returned and found the man’s soul empty and swept clean. The evil spirit gathered seven more evil spirits who returned to th…e man and he...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 26, 2015 | Emotional Literacy
Yesterday I preached at Mathison Retirement Center about friendship with Christ and the loneliness that we may encounter in life. It seemed to resonate with some of the residents. One, in particular, shared her feeling of loneliness during the first few months after...
