<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[My Site 3]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Site 3]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/blog-1</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:45:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Chosen, cleansed, clothed and cultivated]]></title><description><![CDATA[We begin our journey with the Lord when we are drawn by him into his love and redemption. He has chosen us as his own and pursued us. We...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/chosen-cleansed-clothed-and-cultivated</link><guid isPermaLink="false">689a0aeab2187a6db308f070</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:30:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_11d9b311e46745eab3bf97b140470a34~mv2.avif/v1/fit/w_500,h_667,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living by Grace]]></title><description><![CDATA[In The Cost of Discipleship Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that discipleship is simply the reception of grace. 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As part of this watching over...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/giving-weight-to</link><guid isPermaLink="false">652044d1050e4bbbe7f4e1e2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:34:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_80e459fc652542e7b8de07502f1c48a6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Way Through Disappointment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some years ago, I was asking the Lord about some very gifted people I knew who seemingly had dropped out of church life. They had once...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/the-way-through-disappointment</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64f64ae6cae095105ce3e112</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 21:25:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_5fc53511ea44410ea842123b647b0c06~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_275,h_183,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Trap of Second-Guessing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we are preoccupied with re-thinking past decisions and old conversations, looking within ourselves for answers, imagining how...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/the-trap-of-second-guessing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64da7791bfaab706e0152505</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:54:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_a194ede9ee714110824198442b42f7bd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baked or Boiled?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Exodus 14 and 15 we read of the parting of the Red Sea, the Israelites passing over to dry ground, and the death of Pharoah’s army....]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/baked-or-boiled</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64bfd8b66f9848cd17b24fa2</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:21:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_05153865fbce4d1bb4091890ebfe5eb4~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interruption]]></title><description><![CDATA[For several months I’d been praying for wisdom over a particular need. Sounds like a great thing to do, right? One day I was praying in...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/interruption</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6494bf69282356068d640300</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:42:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_4867083b4fe04ab89fba0d08f0834931~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_612,h_408,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weeds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last spring my 8 year-old grandson Sam was helping me pull up weeds in my flower beds (a bane of my existence!). His 2 year-old brother...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/weeds</link><guid isPermaLink="false">645e60e5459e00e5802968d6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 15:55:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_a661c350818444f2a75c73c1983f6e11~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_270,h_187,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passing the Test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wouldn’t we love to go through life without encountering obstacles? Sometimes they come so unexpectedly, so painfully, and upset our...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/passing-the-test</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6446c6cbffdd9db0f90f1e43</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 18:38:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_039e8701f4374ea8b015aee63dc84a11~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough is Enough!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are you naming your future from faith or from regret? Regret is common to us all, but it can disable our future by locking us into the...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/enough-is-enough</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63d4451503fe3a9ba9b40f31</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 21:52:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_bfd57c85c4f1472f858cebd70d24b0ea~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moses's Reward]]></title><description><![CDATA[Although born an Israelite, Moses grew up in Pharaoh’s household, having been rescued from the waters of the Nile as a baby. Once grown,...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/moses-s-reward</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63ab729a6917e2c343f47b90</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:40:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_42717ba135444d6ba0eec7922a554873~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[His Nearness]]></title><description><![CDATA[He is the God who is near. And his nearness is our good (Ps. 73:28). When our heart is broken and our “sorrow is beyond healing” (Jer....]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/his-nearness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">634337aada61fe21f827ce2e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2022 21:42:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_5302d14b4d2b43afa430a48177e2e107~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_500,h_625,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practicing Detachment]]></title><description><![CDATA[2 Kings 5 tells the story of Naaman, valiant commander of the Syrian army, who was stricken with leprosy. 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Healing from...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/victims-no-more</link><guid isPermaLink="false">62cb38794b38d5bc297039b4</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2022 20:38:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_032401a9dc0b4a5dbd61fc6e36f07b1d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infusion of Strength]]></title><description><![CDATA[The prophetic words of Isaiah declared that a Savior would come and take up our infirmities (Matt. 8:17). The Greek word for infirmity...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/infusion-of-strength</link><guid isPermaLink="false">62a4b46d11e2414539772958</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2022 15:32:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_4be08245fa7d4e5396c188584a709181~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Way is Not Closed ]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Spirit can be known only by spirit – God’s Spirit and our spirits in open communion. Spiritually alive, we have access to everything...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/the-way-is-not-closed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6289254bafeffacb3aa84603</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2022 23:51:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_f629bb4e279641eb88155cbae192c869~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning Aside]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Exodus 3 on the far side of the wilderness, a bush was burning but not consumed.  Moses, noticing it, said “I must turn aside to...]]></description><link>https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/post/turning-aside</link><guid isPermaLink="false">623f976cdd1a05dd0d7016b9</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2022 22:51:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81aed8_6e396bf4136546df8a62e9cbd02cc217~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Barbara Byers</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bridging the Transition]]></title><description><![CDATA[We live from season to season. In nature winter becomes spring, then summer and autumn. 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