Stop wasting time trying to convince your haters, your doubters, and the world that you can. They don’t/won’t believe in you.
You CAN.
You WILL.
Keep moving FORWARD.
Keep looking UP.
Keeping standing ten toes down.
Keep standing on FAITH.
Keep the faith.
You can’t prove a negative. Stop trying.
Do your best. BE your best. The rest WILL come out in the wash.
2025 has sooooooooooooooo much in store for you. Scoop out as many moments as you can. Squeeze every ounce of love, joy, peace, and laughter from these moments. Embrace every second from these moments.
Be encouraged. Now, get out there and LIVE.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: What do you dream of? I DARE you to try and make it happen. Ready. Set. Let’s go!!
The greatest lesson I have learned from the 🌪 tornado is that: God has my back. I am loved. I am NOT alone. I do NOT have to fear the future. I do NOT have to fear MY future. I CAN. I WILL.
What have you and are you learning from your storm? These times are not here to break you. They are but footstools for your dreams to climb upon in order for you to reach higher and stretch f
Have you ever heard the saying that says “the standard is the standard?”
Mike Tomlin, the head coach for The Pittsburgh Steelers, uses this phrase all the time. It’s true. The standard IS the standard.
This means that there IS no excuse for not getting things done. You get things done. Period. You do things to the highest order. Period. You do things with excellence. Period.
I am doing my utmost to set the standard in my life. Period. I am doing my level best to BE the standard. Period.
We all have the opportunity to have and make a tremendous impact. Get to it…lol.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Your life matters. Let the folk in your orbit know their lives matter as well. Asking for A Friend.
This is so because many have decided to throw their hands up in despair.
Don’t despair.
Turn on some lights.
BE a light.
Soon, some will be curious about that light over there.
Warm them by your light. Feed them. Remind them they can turn on some lights.
Another may turn on a light. Then, another. Then, another…
Gotta start somewhere. Let it start with me…*Cassandra opens her heart ♥ and lets her light shine*
Whose with me?
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Promise yourself that you absolutely REFUSE to be used as a vessel to peddle in anything but that which uplifts, teaches, loves and all other things that helps someone grow.
Prior to making the decision not to in 2020, I would have been deeply outraged and full of rage at all the awful things being spewed about. Wisdom has taught me to see all this bait for what it is: Bait and a huge waste of time!
Life is short. I’m using my moments to love as much of this world as I can wrap my arms around. Don’t give up on folk. They are afraid. They are hurting. They don’t understand themselves or anyone else.
Be encouraged. Fill your 2025 with as much of your awesome life as you can. You matter. The world NEEDS your voice in this hour. You were made for this. In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He.
P.S. You don’t have to wear your lampshade outside. Only if you want to.
I just saw where someone had posted, to a video, that they couldn’t be friends with black people because “they are ghetto and many of them are overweight”.
Life is short, beloveds. I don’t love just those who look like me. I don’t remove my love from those who hate me simply because I am. Or hate me for being…me.
The fires that are decimating California are heartbreaking. What is more disturbing is the hateful, racist, awful, awful, awful rhetoric being spewed about to get folk to turn on his/her brother/sister/neighbor, all under the guise of politics and patriotism.
I stopped by to let folk know how much I love them and care about your lives. Even those of you who won’t be friends with me cuz I am fat.
This world is what WE make it. I plan on feeling 2025 with oodles and oodles of love, joy, faith and laughter. Who wants to join me?
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I absolutely unequivocally love you. So does He. Nuff said. Be encouraged. Have an incredible week. Make it an amazing Monday.
Much, much too often, all we allow ourselves to see are obstacles. We see disaster everywhere. We fail to see opportunities anywhere.
I have been using these tough days to reimagine my steps and my viewpoint.
I CHOOSE to see the diamonds in the middle of hard.
I CHOOSE to hear love in the silent ghosting of the world.
I CHOOSE to feel joy smack dab in the middle of devastation.
I am soooooooooooo thankful, beloveds, that I was not able to immediately find a job. I would have ended up an exhausted soul. A soul who was too terrified to pursue HER dreams.
When I turned 55, my brain immediately went into alarm status. Suddenly, ALL I saw/felt/heard was that I was much too old to accomplish anything.
I looked at my life of service and wondered if my service had meant anything.
God said yes. My dwindling bank account said heck no. Initially, I sided with my bank account.
It has taken a long time to regain my footing. Truth be told, I am still regaining my footing.
These days, I rarely have to talk myself out of bed. I get up. I make coffee. I wash dishes. I write. I have things to do. As do you.
Are you living, beloveds, or just barely scraping through, too afraid to hope and do something?
You can start again whenever you get ready. Let’s go! We got thangs to do.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Starting over is hard. It gets old. It’s terribly frustrating. Such is life. Start over as many times as you need to. In case no one has told you: I love you. So does He.
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