Month: January 2024

Necessary tears.

I’m not sure who needs these words, this morning. Maybe it’s me?

I find myself, in tears, in the dark.

Finally, my tears say.

Finally!

These tears needed to be set free, you see.

By, me.

For, me.

Me!

Ah, tears, I have been keeping you at bay. I have been fighting for the world.

This morning, my heart quietly asked:

Who fights for YOU?

Tears came to my rescue and said:

We are here. For you. Let us free.

I did.

Ah, tears. Who fights for me? Who cries with me?

“I do”

“I do”

“I do”

*Cassandra sat with God/Life/The Universe and had a good/necessary cry*

To be continued…

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Someone needs to know he/she/they are loved and not alone. Perhaps that someone is me today? Be encouraged. You are loved and you are not alone. Keep on being you.

This morning, I cried.

This morning, I cried.

I missed mom.

This morning, I rejoiced.

I loved her, in a new way.

This morning, I sing.

I love you, mom.

thankful,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: It’s okay to cry. It’s necessary to rejoice. It’s wondrous to sing. Be encouraged. You are loved this day.

Get out of bed, beloved.

This has been a really tough week. A truly tough year.

I did not feel like getting out of bed today. I didn’t get out of bed for a while. I wallow for a little bit in self-pity. Just a little bit.

I have to fight with my feels for quite a while. Feels were winning, for a time, because I was tired and a bit discouraged and a bit sad and a bit mad.

I told myself to get out of bed. I got out of bed. I told myself to get on with my day. I got on with my day.

I got out for a walk. I could only do one lap around. It wasn’t about the lap. It wasn’t about how long I could walk. The important thing was just to try. The important thing was just to walk. If only but a lap.

One step.

One lap.

One moment.

One try.

One.

Just one, beloveds.

I know. I KNOW the way has been hard. It has.

God KNOWS your way has been hard. No getting around that. It has.

The Universe KNOWS the way has been hard. True that.

So what?

Boo hoo.

Life ain’t always fair.

Now, pity party over we can get after it!

Get out of bed, beloveds. There will be time to rest AFTER.

After what?

Great question!

Keep asking.

Keep going.

growing/going with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Get out of bed. Go on now. You have a life to live. Enough chastising yourself over all you have not done. Do it now…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

Celebrate how far you have come.

I have been a bit discouraged, beloveds, thinking of how far I have NOT yet gone.

Then, I got to thinking how far I have actually come.

I have come quite the ways!

I am growing.

I am living.

I am trying.

I am learning.

I am.

I am?

I am!

Ah.

Aha!

Celebrate how far you have come. You may be surprised at how far you HAVE come.

celebrating with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Stop being so hard on your yourself 🛑.

Me: 🤯

Life: Stop being so hard on yourself.

Me: 🤕

The Universe: Stop being so hard on yourself.

Me: 😬

God: 🥸 Stop being so hard on yourself.

Me: 🥰😂🤗😁

hanging in there,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged, beloveds.

It’s okay to struggle when things are tough and taking ffffoooorrrrreeeevvveeerr to work out.

It’s NOT okay to allow your feels to take over and make your temporary situation worse or permanent due to random acts of dumbness you have allowed yourself to do due to your act right not acting right. Whew!

Stop being so hard on yourself. Continue being extremely hard on lazy, apathy, acting a foolness and all the other things we tend to use as excuses when we are tired.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

Keep your act right acting right.

I put myself on punishment.

Yea, beloveds, I was acting ten kinds of fools, this morning.

I was cold.

I was tired.

I was cold AND tired.

I did NOT want to get from beneath my mountain of comforter.

What did I do?

I got out of bed, grumbling, snatched up my coffee mug, grumpily, splashed coffee in said cup, annoyedly, drank, loudly.

Short story long, I whined and carried on for quite a while.

So, I put myself on punishment and told myself I would NOT go to bed early, as I have been hankering. But, I would have to stay up, after work, and work on some extra pieces.

*pout*

A good thing for you as you are, I am sure, all ensconced in a nice comfy bed or sumpin, whilst I am sitting here all tired and cold and blogging and….

Huh?

*Cassandra shuts up after seeing her arms shoot up and fingers point towards the bathroom to scrub the toilet*

(Whispers)…see you later, beloveds. I have to get back to my homework. Sheesh.

being about being about it,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep on keeping on. It’s easy to want to give in to our feels when it is winter and cold is being super cold. Tell feels to put on some extra clothes and keep things moving!

Life is short. Laugh. Love someone. Start with you.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Leave it on the table: Get your me time in.

I find myself, often, up in the middle of the night, posting this, typing that, watching this, doing all kinds of that, on my phone. I have done much better, beloveds, with putting the phone down so I can have some ME time.

Today, I determined to leave my posting phone, on my work desk and leave it be, once I get off work. That way, I can truly have some me time, once in bed. I do my best to get my pieces done, get folks encouraged, and all things done so I can have some me time before I retire for the night.

For a while, I found myself encrouching upon my ‘me’ time. I was sneakily telling myself my ‘me’ time could wait. After a while, of course, my ‘me’ time turned into nonexistent time.

It’s imperative, to do us, in order for us to be able to do for others.

Soooooooooooooooooooo, beloveds, learn to start leaving things on the table. Get in your ‘me’ time so you can do you, full of vim and vinegar!

Be encouraged.

Keep being about being about it.

Keep trying.

Keep living.

Keep loving.

Keep walking.

Even when you are tired.

Please, please, please don’t allow tired to be the reason you quit. Tell tired to hurry up and get a move on! We got thangs to do.

doing thangs with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: What a fantastic week this is turning out to be! Yes, it has been full of hard but it has also been full of laughter. Why? Because I CHOSE!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Real talk: Keep putting the work in.

I’m tired.

I made a promise to get all my pieces done, for the upcoming week.

We are so busy I barely have time to think, let alone write. So, after work, right after work, I told myself to get to work, for ME.

I put in an additional four hours. Yikes! Whew! Ack!

Yet, I have kept my word, to me, to my writing, to you. In the past, I would have used work as an excuse not to work on MY dreams for my life. No more. Life is just too short.

Keep putting in the work for YOUR dreams and goals. Keep putting the work in your relationships. Keep putting the work in healing. Keep putting the work in.

Then, rest. Give yourself time to breathe and let the seeds, of your efforts, grow into whatever The Universe has in store for them and you.

I am tired. A good tired. I have done my work. I have done my try. For ME.

I hear a cup of coffee hollering my name. Care to join me?

satisfied but not,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMatterstoMe

Note: Okay, really? Scat! Get to living and loving folk….

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

In case no one told you today…

True that!

Be encouraged.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Enjoy your Monday. Love someone. Starting with you.

Thank you for the hard days.

God, thank You for the hard days.

They help shape me.

Life, thank You for the hard days.

They help make me..me.

Universe, thank You for the hard days.

They help me to grow.

Hard days, I thank you.

I used to:

Fear you.

Blame you.

Avoid you.

Now, I embrace all that you have to teach me. I appreciate all that you reveal about and in me.

Hard days, I grow weary of you, at times. Yet, I shall continue to embrace you.

Do me a fave, hard days, go ‘way, now, and let me have a bit of rest. I shall await your return.

grateful for the hard,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Nuff said.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!