by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 17, 2026 | change, Truth, Wisdom
I knew the Wallace family from my family’s hometown. I visited Lurleen and children with our 4th grade girl scouts and Daddy and I went to see him in his final years before his death in Montgomery. He did suffer in this life but found peace. CBB. 7/16/26 “In June...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 17, 2026 | Suffering, Trust
SAY THAT AGAIN FOR THE ONES IN THE BACK….. “Pouring out your pain to God, brings the wound into the presence of God. Biblical confession is not faith in your confession. It is faith in Christ expressed through confession. Your confession brings your heart and mouth...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 23, 2026 | Grace, Suffering
Something to remember. “In Gethsemane, the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.”C.S.Lewis Not my will, but Yours. Amen. Cathy’s note: I just realized that Paul, who asked three times to have a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 13, 2026 | spiritual life, Suffering, Teaching, Trust
I get weary of the notion that suffering is preparation for some grand purpose, i.e., as in using Joseph’s story of betrayal, being sold into slavery, victimized by deceitfulness, and left forgotten in prison to becoming #2 leader in Egypt and saving the world from...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 12, 2023 | Suffering
Mining nuggets on suffering well from this by Jordan B. Peterson: “When you’re in hell, anything that lifts you out even a little bit, which stops it from becoming completely catastrophic, is a lifejacket that stops you from drowning. This realism about the...
