Alexa interrupted a perfectly good cup of coffee to holler at me at an impending storm which is due to hit at midnight.
The bag of trash that has been nagging me for TWO days, arched it’s eyebrow with a look that it advised it would behoove me to bust a move and take it out.
I weighed the choice between leaving my comfortable chair against the strong possiblity of something awful gonna grow and crawl out of the trash after being snowed in for who knows when long.
As you can imagine I got some act right quick, fast and in a super hurry!🏃♀️
Done!
Now, I can relax and enjoy whatever I was enjoying before the trash interrupted me.
Huh? Oh, yes. Coffee! Care to join me?
Don’t fear upcoming storms, beloveds. Prepare as best you can then get on with enjoying your day and life.
Challenging times comes to just that: Challenge us!
Tell woe is me to shut up already. Take out some so what and sprinkle it liberally over every corner of your life.
Tough stuff happened. So what? See how easy that was?🤣
Your life can and will be as amazing as you choose and allow it to be. If you don’t like where you are prepare to move on to something else.
DO something. Doesn’t have to be momentous. Just do something to get momentum going. Momentum will take care of the rest.
By the by, beloveds, do you know EXACTLY what you want God and The Universe to give to you? Specifically?
If someone knocked on your door and asked would you be able to tell them? If not, get to daydreaming and fashioning what you want things to look like.
Then, open your eyes and do. I realized I have accomplished much more than I thought in pursuit of my dream.
I have consistently written every day for so long now I can’t remember the last time I didn’t write.
I have also been using my job to strengthen my skills. I talk to oodles of folk every day. I am using every interaction to improve communication and work on my soft skills. I am super passionate and super excitable so I am forever working to temper my passion so I can communicate effectively.
I have been working on my health. Working on my chicklets, my mentals. I don’t know why it tickles to call my brain chicklets. 🤦♀️🤷♀️🤣
I have asked some folk for help who said they would. They didn’t. I have tried to network on our workplace and asked for what I needed/wanted. Nothing happened.
I have asked my work to utilize my gifts and skills and reached out as high as I could go. Was advised I would be utilized. I wasn’t.
After George Floyd was murdered, I reached out to countless organizations and folks who said they cared and would help folk like me. They said they would partner with me so I could help make a difference. They didn’t. Nothing was different.
I have offered myself and offered myself and offered myself. So far at 55 there have been no takers.
I have asked God many, many, many times why my try, my ask, my effort, why me, ME, has not been pulled off the shelf and utilized in the manner I have always longed to be.
No answer. Nothing. Nada!
In the meantime, I prepare. To be used. To be able to encourage as many as life will allow.
I stand, prepared.
Waiting.
Available.
In the meantime, I do that which I long to do: Encourage folk.
Hhmm.
Ah.
Aha!
I am grateful, beloveds, that God and Life and The Universe did not answer my desperate cry for rest and sabbatical yet.
Why? Because, I have been given so much more than a sabbatical could ever have been given.
I would never have learned how to embrace hard. I would never have found out how much I care about things.
I would have never seen the fight in me grow so strong I no longer care what happens as I KNOW God is with me and I CAN do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
I would never have seen me grow so much I can finally grieve for my dad.
I would never have grown so much I am unapologetically me no matter what folk may or may not think of me.
Delay has not been denial. Delay has been God’s Grace so I could learn to stand, grow and LIVE. In the present. Joyful. Hopeful. Resilient.
I would have never met this me. This me, no longer a stranger. This me, a wonderfully goofy friend! I am no longer my own worst enemy.
Hallelujah. 🥰🤗🙌
Prepare, beloveds. Your time, your turn will come. In the meantime, look around you and see all that you have accomplished in your waiting.
If my dreams never come to pass, I will and am enjoying my life.
Life is short. Live. Love someone. Start with you.
prepared for my dream to come true,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
#HereForIt
Note: I sometimes wonder why we were not born fully formed. I guess logistically, for one, we wouldn’t fit in mom’s tummy.😊😁😂
I imagine it’s in part for us to learn all the lessons we will need to lead and act out a successful life. What does success mean to you?
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
- THE HAND FROM HEAVEN ✋🏾☁️🧻🤣
- COME SIT AT MY TABLE 🪑❤️🩹
- BELOVEDS, YOU CAN HAVE MY FLOWERS. I DON’T NEED THEM ANYMORE.
- Forgive them, Cassandra, God said to me
- Still In Love
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