by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 13, 2022 | Ministry
After Bill retired from broadcast management in 2008, he was always available to help me in ministry at Lynn Haven UMC or at the Rescue Mission and later, he was very supportive in helping me with Titus 2 Partnership’s ministry to women. I miss his counsel,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 31, 2022 | memories
My lament….. I do not wish to relive every sad moment of 9/11 for the next 48 hours…… it is a trauma that remains emblazoned in the memories of many. And with events of the world today, it is an all too familiar reminder of humankind’s tendency to act inhumanely...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 31, 2022 | Thanksgiving
From a Thanksgiving Day past…. I was getting gas at Beeline yesterday and an older gentleman and I spoke to one another. I asked him if he was looking forward to a big meal on Thanksgiving Day. He said, “As long as Chow Time doesn’t fold before...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 6, 2022 | Cultural Issues, justice, leadership, listening
Reflection on current events from Jan 6,2021: Dan Bongino made an interesting observation tonight…. What happened when BLM/Antifa were raging in Washington, vandalizing and setting fire to a church next door to the White House and rampaging against the White...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 29, 2021 | Suffering, thorns, timing, tradition, transcendance, woundedness
Adolescent reflection at age 17: “To say that one is wholly and undeniably happy is to lie. For how are we, such shallow beings, to determine those things which have gone to the utter depths of our souls and left them scarred with sorrow? Does not every...
