Month: February 2025

Heart ♥ check Wednesday.

How is your heart today?

Just checking in.

Feeling a smidge overwhelmed.

I tried to pray.

My prayer turned into a chant:

God, I don’t know what to do. I just don’t know what to do. Where do I go? Where do I turn? I just don’t know what to do.

I still don’t, beloveds. Rest has been hard to come by. Guilt keeps stopping by to tell me I should be working. I SHOULD be doing some frantic SOMETHING.

God has been silent. The Universe has told me to chill. Life says to TRUST that all is still well. Ack. Geeeeeeeeeeeeez.

Still, I am comforted by my try. I keep telling myself to just try, Cassandra. Everything really WILL be alright.

Be encouraged, beloveds. We truly will be alright.  The storm is just extra loud and scary just now. It WILL pass. New things ARE growing. As are we.

Hang in there. In the meantime, cut yourself some slack. We got this. We CAN. We WILL.

I am carrying each of you around in my pocket so I can pray for you and yours. No shoving each other in there! Be nice or no snacks!…lol.

I love you.

hopeful still,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: We got this. Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

It’s time to believe. In me.

It’s time to believe.

In me.

It’s time to fight.

For my dreams.

I’m ready.

To stand ten toes down.

I’m able.

To withstand ANY foe.

I may not win.

The outcome is not the point.

The point is to get in the arena.

The mission is giving it all I’ve got.

I have won.

Already.

In entering the arena.

I have defeated my biggest enemy.

Which was ME.

winning,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Get in the arena, beloveds, and try. Just try.

There really IS life on the other side of your fear. Ah, it’s glorious. Come join me. The water is perfect. Let’s go!!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You are one moment away.

You are one moment away.

From a breakthrough.

From victory.

From defeat.

From a glorious beginning.

From an ignominious defeat.

Keep moving. FORWARD. You just don’t know which will change everything!

Get going. Move. Try. Do something.

I did NOT want to do something today. I am tired of this unknown. I am exhausted with the high road. I’m through with encouraging myself. So what?!

I’m doing what I can. It’s a have to. The ONLY way things change is if I change them. Heckamiah Jeremiah!😭😡😥🙏

I made myself get up and get going. There may be a miracle hiding in this day. I won’t know until I find out.

Be encouraged, beloveds. You are a moment away!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: One step at a time. Ah, God. What do we do in the meantime? Asking for many friends.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Choose: Rest or worry?

Choose.

Rest or worry.

Choose.

Love or apathy.

Choose.

Try or give up.

Choose.

Laugh or despair.

Choose.

Move forward or look behind.

I choose to rest. I choose to love. I choose to try. I choose to laugh.

What do YOU choose, beloveds?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life is what YOU make it. Make your life an amazing one. Love someone. Starting with you. I love you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You can if you want to.

I can.

I keep reminding my age of this. I keep reminding my try of this.

I can.

I want to.

I will.

Some kind of way.

What shall YOU do, beloveds?

You can, you know?

Try. Just try.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Everything around me tells me all is hopeless. Ha, I reply back! I can. I can do something. The something may be small. Yet, ONE spark can 🔥 burn down a forest!

Use your spark to change things. Starting with you. Today may be the day the world opens itself for you. In the meantime, open yourself to all life has to offer.

The best is yet to come for us. Wait for it. Be patient. Be joyful. Life is as we are making it. I am making my days glorious. How about you?

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Beloved, you are.

Beloved, you are history in the making.

Beloved, your life can/is changing your surroundings.

What kind of history are YOU making in your life and the lives of those around you?

You ARE making a difference. Is the difference positive? Are folk glad you came or are they relieved that you left?

Are you sowing love or discord?

Are you giving some or are you taking everything?

Are you forgettable because of your apathy? Are you unforgettable because of the care you show?

I was raised to consider others. Unfortunately, these last decades folk have been raised to consider no one but themselves.

Beloved, you are…

Whatever YOU choose to be. What/who do you CHOOSE to be?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I choose to love. You. I do.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Make this world regret dismissing you.

Ah, beloveds.

I see you!

Ah, beloveds. I see the greatness just waiting to be unleashed within you!

This IS your time!

THIS is your moment!

Seize it!

Make this world regret dismissing you.

How?

You tell me!!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Can you feel it, beloveds? Can you feel the earth quaking in fear of YOUR greatness set to be unleashed within and upon it!

Let’s go!!!!!

Shine your light.

Stand up.

Show up.

Show out!

There is no way in hell any of us are going to allow our world to disintegrate into a hopeless mess with our consent!

There is too much good in us. Start kicking darkness in the uh-oh! Let’s go, people!

We NEED one another. ALL of us. We shall NOT be moved!!!

Get out there and love as many folk as you can. Especially the especially hard headed ones. Smh.



One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Fear, you is a dummy.

Fear, you is a dummy.

You thought you had me.

You were waiting for me to get got.

But, I got YOU.

Locked down.

Imprisoned.

Stewing in your own juice.

Yea, fear, you thought you had me.

Turns out I had YOU.

Reduced to rubble.

Smashed to smithereens.

Beaten.

By love.

Defeated.

By try.

By me.

What say you now, fear?

I can’t hear you.

Too busy laughing at YOUR demise.

You thought you had me.

Turns out I had YOU.

What say you, fear?

Who is running now?

I suggest YOU get to running, fear.

There is NO room for you here.

Be gone.

Go your way.

I got thangs to do!

doing thangs free from fear,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Sometimes, beloveds, you just HAVE to let fear know where to go!

Stop running. Face fear head on. You got this. God has us all. Fear is nothing but a liar.

Tell yourself the truth: You CAN. You WILL! Now, get out there and get it. Help someone else get theirs. Together we win. Let’s go!!!!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

What do you DO when you don’t know what to do?

What do you DO when you don’t know what to do?

I have been asking myself this question for months. Months!

Where do I look first?

Who do I trust now?

How do I know I am making the RIGHT decision?

Questions. Questions!

The questions don’t stop. Neither will I!

Not knowing is forcing me to continually evaluate, reevaluate and make choices.

I am learning to DO something. Even if the something is something small. The small shall unleash something large soon. I hope.

I hope!

Ah.

Aha!

Use these unknown times to get to know you…lol.

Ah, beloveds. THIS is our time. THESE are our moments. We can NOT afford to dismiss them.

The world may choose to dismiss us. No matter. We move. FORWARD. Even if we must go alone.

We look UP. Even if everyone else choose despair.

We will NEVER, EVER, NEVER give up on ourselves. Never again.

We will strive. We will try. We will!

We are NOT helpless.

We are NOT hopeless.

We fight on!

Get up!

Stop crying over the unfair fight! The fight IS unfair. So what?!!!! Fight anyway!

Snatch victory from certain defeat.

Remain defiant in the face of EVERY foe.

No, we will not win every fight. So what?! Make sure the darkness KNOW they have been in a hell of a fight!

If I lose, dammit, I will lose with victory clutched within my cold, dead hands!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, you are supposed to be beating the hell out of all that has been beating the hell out of you. Go!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Love them home.

I have been waiting at the door.

Arms open.

Heart ready to receive them.

I am loving them home.

All of them.

The hurting ones.

The unbelieving ones.

The angry ones.

The hateful ones.

The spiteful ones.

The helpless ones.

The broken ones.

The lonely ones.

Why?

Because, at some point in my life, I was one of them. I was each of them. So were you.

I am here.

here as best as I can be,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Too often folk will only be there for folk who have fallen as they have. Folk tend to only tend to those who sin as they do, live as they do, do as they do.

What a world this would be if we all chose to be there. No matter what. I am doing my best to do my best. I am praying that others join me.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!