Month: May 2024

You won’t know you can until you have to.

Today required a lot of patience.

Too bad I had none.

Nada.

Zilch.

Not even a smidge.

I had to keep going, though.

No choice.

I HAD to.

I had no idea how it’s gonna get through the work day.

I had to find a way.

I found a way.

Don’t ask me how.

I just did it.

I didn’t think I could.

I did.

I told myself I would try.

I tried.

I did.

You won’t know you can until you have to.

Be encouraged.

rooting for you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You have NO idea of the depths of you. Don’t stop until you reach the finish line.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Stay the course: Can I be honest, God?

Me: Can I be honest?

God: Yes.

Me: I mean REEEEEAAAAAAAALLLLLY promise I won’t get to hell for being honest, honest?

God: Yes.

Me: I’m having a hard time with hard. I’m having a realllly hard time waiting for YOU. I know You promised to be with me during hard but You have been awfully quiet. Your Silence is awfully loud, God. Just saying.

God: I understand.

Me: Do You? It doesn’t FEEL like it. It doesn’t LOOK like it. I am simply living by MY faith in YOU.

God: Exactly. Wait for it, beloved.

Me: Ah. Aha!

God: When I am the most silent, your heart speaks the loudest.

Me: I know! I can’t get her to….hhm. I think I see what You mean! I am forever trying to control how my heart needs to be acting or doing. I need to trust her more and just let her BE. Me. I’m afraid to be me.

God: Why?

Me: Because, my me is soooooooooooooooo, well, ME. I can’t find another 55 year old who does this life like I do.

God: Okay, beloved, there is only one you. This was by design.

Me: Why does my design feel sooooooooo inadequate?

God: Inadequate to whom, beloved?

Me: Ah. Aha!

God: Exactly. Keep going. Even when you don’t understand. Especially when you don’t understand. I am here. I keep My Promises. Will you keep YOURS?

Me: I will.

God: That’s all I ask.

Me: K.

Can I be honest, beloveds? It has been terribly difficult to stay the course. My age, my lack of resources, my this, my that and every other thing is laughing all up in my face.

Today, I had to drag myself out of bed. I called my twin. Told her I did NOT know HOW I would do work. today. She told me to do work today.

I told her I did NOT know HOW I would be able to keep on keeping on. She told me to keep on keeping on.

I told myself God told me His Grace was sufficient for me. Whew! Grace where ARE you?!!

I got up.

I started work.

I started enjoying work.

Be encouraged, beloveds. If you are in a terribly difficult spot, get to rejoicing! Your victory IS at hand. If not, fear/doubt and all their friends would not be on such a rampage to get YOU to give up on YOU and your dreams.

Hold fast, beloveds. Oftentimes, your dreams are not being held up because of anything you have done or not done. Your dreams, at times, are being held up because God is doing work in and for someone else.

Now, I don’t know why this hard has had to be THIS hard. I just know hard ain’t nothing but a tool we use to keep us sharp, focused and fresh.

Be encouraged. Don’t let anything keep your joy. Turn on some music. Step out into some fresh air. Get on up, beloveds. We got thangs to do.

Encourage someone. Life is tough for us all. We got this. God has us all. In case no one has told you today: I love me some you. So does He.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, so the whole piece was a note. Geeeeeeeeeez.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Heart check.

Here I go again.

Checking on you.

How is your heart today?

Tell the truth.

How are you REALLY doing?

Folks never asked how people are doing anymore. How sad. We all need to do better checking on each other.

Speaking of which, how’s your heart doing?

Reach out for some love if your heart is empty. I know where you can find Plenty!

In case no one has told you today: I love you.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: ❤️‍🩹♥️🥰

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Repeat after me: Unbreakable.

Repeat after me:

I am unbreakable.

I am undeterred.

I am immovable.

I am immensely capable.

I am able.

Now get out there, beloveds, and happen to your day!

STOP allowing yourself to be stopped!

What in the fresh hell are you still doing here?!

Get going. Life is short. You got thangs to do!

You CAN.

You WILL.

You MUST.

getting after it with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Get on out there and try. Something. Some kind of way. Your way. So what if it does not work at first. Try again. And, again. Rinse. Repeat.

Beloveds, I may never make my dreams come true. Best believe it will NOT be because I quit or walked away. Ha! Nevada! Eva!

How looooooooooooong will you wait, beloveds? Get to making that podcast! Get to writing that book! Start that blog! Write that song! Try for THAT job! Ask her out! Buy him a cup of coffee! Asking for A Friend. ❤️‍🩹♥️

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Sometimes…for others.

Sometimes we are asked to hold the door for others.

Sometimes we are asked to valet for others.

Sometimes we are asked to cook the meal for others.

Sometimes we are asked to be the waiter for others.

Sometimes we are asked to wash the dishes for others.

Sometimes, beloveds, we are asked to do…for others.

Ah beloveds, God knows you are hungry. He knows you are tired. He knows you are thirsty. He knows you are a smidge weary in your well doing.

Be encouraged.

Your time IS coming.

Soon, the chair will be pulled out for you.

In the meantime, sometimes we are needed…

For others.

Here,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Sometimes, beloveds, it’s not about us. It’s about them. Being about it for them. How ’bout you? Asking for A Friend.❤️‍🩹♥️

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You are more than what you think you see.

You are soooooooooooooooo much more, beloveds, than what you think you see.

You look inside and feel the imposter. You feel lost. You feel inadequate. You feel alone in a room full of folk.

Ah, beloveds, you are fearfully and wonderfully made!

Look again!

Look inside.

Your trappings are nothing more than traps tripping you up.

Cast off things.

Embrace you.

Your heart is without price says He which has loved thee before the world was ever formed.

Look again.

What do you see?

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Ah, beloveds. You are altogether lovely! You are. Love someone. Starting with you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Stay in the fire(fight).

Stay in the fire!

Stay in the fight!

It’s hot.

It’s hard.

It hurts.

So what!?

Stay in the firefight!

We do NOT fight alone.

We are NOT in the fire alone.

Remember, beloveds, there were FOUR men all up in the fire..hehehe. If you don’t know, you had better ask somebody…lol.

Do NOT give yourself an out.

The ONLY way out of hard is THROUGH.

Period.

End of story.

Stop using hard as an excuse to quit.

We got thangs to do.

Life is short.

Get to doing them thangs.

doing thangs with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Today was one of the hardest days I have had in forever. Bad news everywhere. Nothing working anywhere. Hell breaking out every which a way. I had two choices:

I could quit.

Or, I could quit.

I told quit to shut up, kick rocks and take THREE seats.

Then, I got to be about being about it. In times past, I would have been lamenting and rending my clothes and wailing about the ‘unfairness’ of it all. Today was being unfair. So what!? I had thangs. I did as many thangs as hard would allow me to get done.

I laughed. A lot. I cried. Just a wee bit. I fussed. For a few minutes. I told God ‘Ow’. God replied ‘Aha!’ How great is that?

Be encouraged, beloveds. Keep going. Even when it is hard. Especially when it gets hard. In case no one has told you today: I love.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You don’t have to like it. You just have to do it.

You don’t have to like taking the high road, beloveds.

You just have to do it.

You don’t have to like where God/Life/The Universe has asked you to go.

You just have to go.

You don’t have to like being the only one being a person of integrity.

You just have to be it!

Do!

Go!

Be!

doing/going/being with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: If none go but me, so be it. Who will keep me company? Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God said.

God: I’m not moving for you right now.

Me: I’m not moving from You ever.

Me: Why won’t You move for ME right now?

God: Why won’t you move even though I haven’t?

Me: Because I believe in YOU.

God: I have not moved, in your finances, because I believe in YOU.

Me: What does this mean?

God: Aha! Great question! Keep asking, beloved.

Me: Ah. Aha!

pondering,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Sometimes, obstacles are meant to stay in our way. For a looooooooooooooooooooooong time.

Why?

Beats me. I just know them darn things can stay in the way for a looooooooooooooooooooooog time.

The obstacles, beloveds, are besides the point. The point is:

Will you or won’t you?

Period.

Will you:

Have faith?

Keep going?

Do what’s needed because it is needed?

Whether you gain from doing the deed.

Whether you lose from doing the deed.

WILL you do the deed if asked?

Or, won’t you?

Either way, be honest with you. Sometimes, the doing is just too hard, in your opinion. This is understood. You CAN do the thing, though. How do I know? Because He said you could/would.

It’s a trust thing. You trusting YOU. He trusts you. How about stepping out, in FAITH, so you can see what HE sees in you? Asking for A Friend.


One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God knows.

God knows why.

God knows how.

God knows when.

Nuff said.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged. It’s okay to question. It’s okay to not understand. Be encouraged, beloveds. Hold fast and do NOT give in to despair. In case no one has told you today: I love you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!