Month: March 2024

Have an amazing Monday.

Have an amazing Monday.

You heard me.

Not a stressful one.

Not a fear-filled one.

Have an amazing Monday.

Have a beautiful Monday.

Have a faith-filled Monday.

Have a wonderful Monday.

Have an awesome Monday.

You can have any kind of Monday you want.

Make it a blessed day.

The Bible says this is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it.

I choose to rejoice in my Monday.

How about you, beloveds?

enjoying my Monday,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToM,us™d.

I hated to think of Monday coming. Now, I am embrace every bit of my Monday. Enjoy your Monday, beloveds. You have no idea what’s in store for you today.

Whatever your Monday brings, beloveds, enjoy it. This day will never return in this fashion again. Tomorrow, if you are blessed with a tomorrow, will be what it will be.

Enjoy your Monday. I hear a cup of coffee calling me. Want to join me?

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Why do You keep me breathless?

God.

Why do You keep me breathless?

Life.

Why do You keep me breathless?

Universe.

Why do You keep me breathless?

Why do You keep me:

On the edge of my seat.

Suspended in animation.

At the precipice.

Of?

I know not.

Which makes me…

Breathless.

Ah, crap.

*Cassandra looks into the unknown and waits…breathless.*

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: My dreams won’t let me sleep. So, beloveds, I awaken you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Don’t be discouraged.

A silent phone.

An empty stomach.

A promise not kept.

A hand not held.

Love not returned.

Don’t be discouraged.

God heard you.

Life listened.

The Universe is on the way.

To you.

For you.

With you.

Don’t be discouraged.

None are disappointed in you.

You CAN.

You WILL!

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged. Your time is coming. In the meantime, love someone. Starting with you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Pockets of joy.

A hand.

Held.

Snippets of conversation.

Had.

Pockets of joy.

Consumed.

Ah.

Aha!

I find myself:

Satisfied.

I find myself.

Ah.

Aha!

Pockets of joy.

satisfied,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I had drifted off to the melodic tones of a traveler who had been describing his day. Somewhere, he said three words that snatched me from my slumber…

Pockets of joy.

????

!!!!

🎯🔥🛑🤯🥰🙏🎤

My soul, one long longing for pockets of joy:

Ran.

Sang.

Lept.

Straight into the arms of God.

Ah. Aha! My always Pockets Of Joy. Ah, God. I love me some You.🥰. Ah, Life. I love me some You. Ah, Universe. I love fighting with and for You. Ah, beloveds. I love thinking of, praying for, trying with you. I find you to be…

Pockets of joy.

Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

How’s your weird?

How’s your weird?

My weird wants to know:

Why I am up so early wondering about your weird?

What is your weird doing?

Why do I care about your weird?

How weird is that?

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: 🥰🤣. You are on my minds, beloveds. Just thinking of you and hoping you are okay. Please give your heart some slack this weekend. You have been much too hard on it! Your heart is doing all it knows. The problem is we don’t have the first clue why our hearts do the random foolishness it does on the unfortunate semi regular. 🤷‍♀️

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Heart check ♥️ Saturday.

It’s Saturday!

Workwise, it’s actually my Friday. So what?

The weekend is here.

I have done my best.

I have given my all.

I am tired.

I ordered chicken strips and mini glazed donuts to enjoy for today. Yaya! I only bought a dozen. Donuts, that is.

Deliciously, I allowed myself to have three mini donuts. I forced myself to put the other nine away so I could enjoy them today. Yaya!

Now, I rest. System issues are preventing work. How sad. 😁🤣. Actually, I enjoy working so the system issues have been a pain.

That said, I am using the extra time to get things done. Working from home is fantastic. I can get my chores done early so I can enjoy my donuts and ☕ coffee. Yaya!

You are welcome to join me, beloveds. You have done your week. Time to rest and refill.

How’s your heart? Asking for A Friend.

Take care of yourself. Thanks for hanging out with me this week. Let’s rest up so we can get into all manner of cuteupness, eh?

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Use your disappointment to make an appointment.

I was disappointed.

Again.

I tried.

I failed.

Again.

I cried.

Again.

God heard me.

Again.

My disappointment was just another opportunity to make an appointment with Him.

My disappointment was just another opportunity to make an appointment with The Universe.

My disappointment was just another opportunity to make an appointment with Life.

My disappointment was just another opportunity to make an appointment with hard.

My disappointment was just another opportunity to make an appointment.

Ah.

Aha!

Disappointment is a part of life. Disappointment shows up when you try. Disappointment doctor every step towards your goal. Disappointment is your fiercest adversary.

Keep fighting until you have made Disappointment ppointment your best friend!

Your trials and tests are nothing but obstacles on the way to your miracle. Get excited when you see them. They are a sign that victory is at hand.

Keep making appointments!

being about being about it,

Cassandra

Note: There is the other side. Keep moving towards it.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Real talk: Get out of your own way.

Can I be honest with you beloveds? Just for a little bit? Will you promise not to tell on me?

I’ve been getting in my own way. How? If I would have been honest, I would admit that I have been letting fear run the show. Just a little bit of fear, here. A touch of worry, there.

Not enough to be obvious. Just enough to stop my dreams in their tracks.

Fear can be a tricky thing. Fear  will sneak up on you when you least expect it to. Every time you think you have things conquered , fear will show up and say, ha ha.

I am learning to fight fear where I find it. I seem to have found it everywhere these last few weeks.

I have found it in my age. I have found it in my finances. I have found it in my aloneness. I have founded in my health. Finally, fear showed up in my dreams.

And that beloveds,  was the last straw!

I have been needing to clean out the lint trap in the dryer. I have been lazy. Which means all I have been doing is racking up higher power bills and taking much longer to dry the laundry.

Instead of taking 5 minutes to clean out the lint trap, I have been lazy and restarting the laundry telling myself the clothes will get dry sooner or later. Smh.

I don’t know why us humans keep doing the dumb thing. Not doing the right thing at the right time and expecting to have different results. Smh.

I’m learning how to do the right things at the right time no matter how I feel. I am learning how to clean out the link trap in my own life.

I have been doing the hard work of confronting myself and being honest about my fears and why I’m afraid of this and that.

What I am learning is that most of my fears come from the fears of others. I’m afraid because they were afraid. I’m afraid I can’t do it because they never did it or believed they could.

I think I can. I want to try. I am trying. My try just does not seem to be enough these days.

My tears have been my meat as a bible says. My tears have water disappointment and discouragement for days. My tears have chased me into bed. My tears have making me awaken in the night.

Yet, my tears, water my hope. My tears,  rain down upon my joy. My tears, accompany my footsteps as I keep walking towards my dreams.

I promised myself I would try. For me.

I’m doing my best to stay out of my way. I’m doing my utmost to get out of my own way. Life is short.

Be encouraged. Keep trying. We should get there some kind of way.

In the meantime, enjoy your life. Get out of your own way. Remember to clean out your lint traps!

fighting on,

Cassandra

Note: One step at a time. One moment at a time. One day at a time.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

When funny just ain’t funny.

Life kicked my hind end today.

Whew!

Life was NOT very funny today.

So much so, I pouted through much of it. Yea, beloveds, I carried on. I fussed. I fretted. I told God what a meanie Life was being.

I told myself I was just NOT in the mood to tell any jokes today. Ha! No jokes for you people.

Somehow, I found enough in me to tell one joke. One joke turned into two. Two turned into many. After a time, I forgot what a meanie Life was being and just enjoyed what life I was living.

No, things were not funny. Yet, I found some joy buried beneath the hard.

Keep going, beloveds. Don’t allow hard to be a/the reason you give up on your jokes.

Keep laughing. Keep trying. Things WILL work out. In the meantime, keep working out your faith muscles…*shrug*.

I love annoying fear/doubt. They hate it when I keep being about being about it.

sharing a laugh with you,

Cassandra

Note: Nuff said.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I am a joker.

I am a joker.

At least, I have been for the past while.

It started innocently, I promise.

One day, one of my bosses told us THE corniest joke. EVER. It made me laugh. Makes me laugh even now.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Question: Where do Bad Rainbows go? 

Answer: Prism (Its a light sentence, and gives them time to reflect.)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

How can you NOT laugh at that!?

Prism!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA.

OMG!!!!

God: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahah!! O Myself!…..hahahahahahahahhahhaha!!!

See?

Toldja it was funny.

One day, beloveds, I was minding my own business and God told me to tell the next person I dealt with that joke.

I started not to. Yet, how the world can one argue with God?? Instead of arguing, I had a small ‘chat’ with Him:

Me: God, I can’t tell folks THAT joke!

God: Why not?

Me: They will think me ridiculous.

God: Tell it anyway.

Me: They may not laugh.

God: Tell it anyway.

Me: They may think me odd.

God: Tell it anyway.

Do you want to know something interesting? The more I argued, er, counseled with God, the more MY insecurities came out. I stopped thinking on bringing some laughter to folk and started looking inward and seeing lack inside.

God: Tell the joke.

Me: I’m afraid they will laugh AT me.

God: Tell the joke.

Me: K.

So, one day, I mustered up the courage…

The next person I interacted with, I told the joke.

I can not tell you how many folks, on the daily, react at first with a gasp, then an uproarious laugh. Which makes me laugh. Which makes them laugh. Which has us both falling all over one another.

Now, I spend my days telling as many folks as I can what happens with bad rainbows…..hahahahahahahahahha.

Do you know what I learned? The more I reached out, past MY fear, and just loved folk. The more I received. In laughter. In love. In joy. In healing.

Laughter used to be such a painful thing for me, growing up. Laughter chased me, as folks made fun of the way I looked, the way that I dressed, the way that I talked.

I’m okay with me now. I love me. There was a time I did not. I enjoy laughter now. I laugh every day. Every laugh is reclaiming the broken parts of a little girl laughed into grownness. A little girl, now grown, no longer holding her head down in shame.

Lift your head, beloveds. If your past laughed at you, that’s okay. Reclaim your joy. Hurt people, hurt people. Folk back then just didn’t know any better. And, those who still chose to be mean were just that. Mean. Doesn’t mean you were loved and valued any less.

Be encouraged. Be a joker with me. Keep moving past your fears. Keep removing lies long told that need to die. You are loved and you are NOT alone. You are worthy. You are worth while.

Make someone smile. Starting with you.

laughing with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Nuff said

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!