by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 21, 2025 | Gratitude, grief, healing, heart, pets, Uncategorized
In early August, I observed a small umbilical hernia in my little Shih Tzu dog, Bitsy. The next week I had to go to Birmingham and I sent her to doggie daycare at our veterinarian’s office and asked them to check it. When I picked her up I talked to the doctor. She...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Jesus ministered to all – sinner and saved alike- everywhere he went. He fellowshipped with the disciples who were with him most of the time for 3 years. But he enjoyed close community with Peter, James and John They went places others didn’t and he showed...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 19, 2025 | self care, spiritual growth, Trust
WORDS OF WISDOM”The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”ERNEST HEMINGWAY I was very much one whose default mode was to trust others for many years. What made me a skeptic about trusting people for a few years was having some...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
To forgive 70×7 times means to forgive every time the remembrance of another’s offense comes to mind…. In other words, as many times as it takes until you are wholly free of it. It does not mean to keep putting yourself in front of the unrepentant and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
I read posts regularly chastising and warning others about not making judgments. Micah 6:8 proclaims to us: “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” How...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
August 2025 Activities 2 boxes of Titus 2 kitchenware, bag of towels, and wicker lingerie chest given to single adult woman setting up housekeeping. Bag of greeting cards and assorted sewing notions donated and delivered to senior disabled woman for craft making for...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Keep in mind, we are not aiming at a 50-50 mix of the two. This isn’t about living in the so-called “tension” or trying to find a “middle way” between them. It is 100%-100%—Word and Spirit bonded in an inseparable, indivisible nuptial union.” jdwalt Me, pondering….....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 23, 2025 | redemption, sanctification, scripture, self-awareness, spiritual formation, spiritual growth, Uncategorized
“God will allow the layers you depended on to fall away, so that all that is left is pure trust; no props, no pretense. Whatever is a distraction He will remove. Connections that jeopardize your integrity, He will remove. He will cause a “divine stripping” to clear...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 18, 2025 | music, Uncategorized
Psalter words are printed below. Tune is St. Columba listen here: https://psalms.seedbed.com/psalm-62/?mc_cid=85c1d145cf#1497969192248-06426ebf-e1ed 1 My soul finds rest in God alone; salvation comes from Him.My soul in silence waits for God; I only...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 14, 2025 | attributes of Christ, miracles, mysticism, time, timing
Just as Dottie Wilson’s text devotional today (below) hints, I do believe God reveals Himself to us as timeless, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent occasionally. There have been brief moments when I and others with whom I have talked have experienced “jumps” or...
