by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 7, 2022 | recovery, Twelve Steps
Matthew 12: 43 “Now when the unclean spirit comes out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept clean, and put in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 15, 2022 | transparency
5/15/2014…….. a month after starting Titus 2. This little framed glass butterfly with the word “transform” was given to me by a friend who has been journeying with me through the past seven months or so and has been aware of the obstacles and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 27, 2022 | change, righteousness, Truth
How Christ changes the heart: Conviction -> Repentance ->Forgiveness -> Redemption -> Righteousness -> Worship -> Service
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 15, 2022 | change, spiritual growth
These are photos of the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly that hang in my office and that I use with our new students, explaining the process of transformation this way: 1.) egg- like the tiniest embryo of a human, this little egg contains all that it will need to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 15, 2022 | change, recovery
The metaphor offered below by my friend, Deborah Ann Holstine, is RICH!!!! It is a beautiful biblical exercise in visioning one’s own transition from victimization and bondage in sin to victorious living in Christ! We use an adaptation of William Bridges’ diagram on...