by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 11, 2023 | Charlotte Ann, Cultural Issues, Spirituality, writing
“What’s one thing you do that AI can’t do? Or two things? Or three?” Spiritual Director and Writer’s Coach, Charlotte Byrd Donlon, posed this question in one of her recent “5 Good Things” newsletters that she sends out. It was a timely and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 12, 2022 | sermons, writing
I spent a significant part of today working on a sermon for Sunday at Carillon Beach Community Chapel. Rev. Terry Rodriguez is out of town for a couple of weeks, so she has graciously given me the privilege of filling in for her.. I had started three different times...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 9, 2022 | sermons
“….. the two most important notes in any musical composition are the first and the last. “The audience might forgive you for what comes in the middle,” a band director would say, “but they will forget neither your very first impression nor your final...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 26, 2022 | writing
From 3/25/17 There was a day I decided that some people undertake writing a book under influences of considerably less noble motivation than I would have thought. A young lady who’d been in recovery for a few months and whom I’d only recently met had...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 16, 2021 | writing
It happens from time to time, as it did this morning…..someone comes up to me and says, “I read what you post on Facebook” (often with an encouraging additional comment). Mostly they are names I rarely see on a comment or...