Month: May 2025

What is your greatest 💪 strength, The Universe 🌌 asked me.

The Universe 🌌: What is your greatest strength?

Me: Why do you ask?

The Universe 🌌: Why won’t you answer?

Me: What if my answer disappoints?

The Universe 🌌 : Disappoints who?

Me: Yikes! Great question.

I have been trying to figure out my greatest strength for the last 56 years. Even now, I wonder.

Life seems to grow shorter by the day. I don’t want to fail. I don’t want to fall. I seem to be doing both lately.

I can’t believe we are already in to May!

Right now, my greatest strength seems to be stubbornness. I refuse to give up. I refuse to quit. I refuse to believe that it’s all over for me and my dreams. I find myself trying again. I gave up about two or three times last week.

Everything seems to be so hard right now. Everyone is stressed out. The world just seems to be a dark and dank place. It’s not. We are all in transition of some sort. We just have to keep hanging on until we find out what our strength is and then walk in that truth.

Keep fighting. Keep moving forward. Don’t lose heart no matter how dark the day seem. We can do this. We really can. We will.

Have an amazing day.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life is what we make it. Let’s make it a good one.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Thankful for the hard times.

I’m thankful today. Thankful for all the hard times. These hard days are forcing me to move beyond my fears. These hard days are forcing me to take my old age and run into the future.

These hard days are making me acknowledge my strengths and weaknesses. These are days are challenging me to my core. I am thankful for that. There are days when I wish I would have chosen the easier path of hiding in my comfort zone. I could do that all day.

I think about my old job and how easy it was. Then I think about the sadness I carried in my heart all day, as I wished I would have pursued my dreams. I don’t have that sadness now. I feel joy.

Yes, I’m anxious because I don’t have a job and don’t know how I’m going to meet my needs. I try not to focus on that. I do my best to focus on what I have currently. Can’t do my best to encourage as many people as I can every day. I do my best to keep myself encouraged. I remind myself that this too shall pass. It will.

Be encouraged, beloveds. Your hard won’t stay hard forever. Keep doing the best that you can. You are building a legacy. Be proud of your try.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Greatness take time. And effort. Keep going.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God asked me: Why are you here?

God: Why are you here?

Me: I have been asking this question for 50 years.

God: Why are you here, with Me?

Me: Because I love You. Because You first loved me.

God: What shall you DO while you are HERE. At THIS time?

Me: I was hoping You would tell me.😁🤣🥰

Approval.

Recognition.

Validation.

Love.

Safety/security.

We are all in search of these things. We all wonder, I think, what in the world are we doing here?!😳

My 56 is wondering if I will have a 57. 60 seems much too close for comfort.

I do NOT want to leave this world without having fulfilled my whatever in the fresh hoohah I am supposed to. Ack.

I wonder if I will be asking this question 50 years from now. One can dream, eh?

Whilst you are wondering, beloveds, be sure to embrace the life you have.

Have a wonderful today.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

What is your biggest fear, Life asked me.

Life: What is your biggest fear?

Me: I’m afraid to ask myself.

Life: Why?

Me: I’m not sure what that answer might be.

Life: What is your greatest fear?

My greatest fear is dying with all of this greatest locked up inside. There are so many things I want to do. It feels like I’m running out of time. I sure hope not. I’m doing the best I can to use these days for my benefit. I feel inadequate to the task. I try anyway.

I have been fighting with the limitations of software, a lack of finances and not knowing which step is the right step to take. In the past, I would have used these things as excuses not to try. I would have given up in despair. I would have stopped and been angry at how unfair life was being to me.

Life can be terribly unfair. So what? We have things to do.

What is your biggest fear? Whatever it is, don’t let fear stop you from being all that you can be. Seize every moment that you can. I shall do the same.

Let’s promise ourselves we’re not going to give up no matter what happened. I dare you to try.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: What are you waiting for? Get out there and live.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

It’s okay to be an idiot…sometimes.😳

It’s okay to be an idiot…sometimes.😳

I did something really dumb. I mean really dumb!…*stamps foot*.

Instead of waiting five days, I miscalculated, added dumbly, and messed up some sorely needed funds.

Five days, Cassandra!😳😡

Now, I have one less month to maneuver financially. All because I couldn’t wait for five days!…*stamps foot*

I made the decision based on fear of what “could” happen. I failed to calculate what “would” happen, NOW, IN THE PRESENT CASSANDRA! WHAT IN THE FRESH HELL WERE YOU THINKING!??

I just stopped by to encourage folk to hang in there and be good to yourself even when you do something absolutely STUPID LIKE DO SOMETHING NOW THAT COULD HAVE WAITED FOR FIVE DAYS!!…opps..ehem….my bad.

Don’t give yourself a hard time when you fall prey to being human. Try to laugh your way through the dumbness. I know I am trying to.

In the meantime, I’m having a cup of coffee, getting over the oops I can do nothing about, and getting on with my day.

In the past, I would have wasted the rest of the day kicking myself and carrying on about something that can’t be changed. I was a dumbsky. It happens.  I happened to me today…lol.

Be encouraged. Have a fabulous rest of your Sunday. Geez, Cassandra. Really?!

wondering what dumb thing I shall do next,

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Nobody cares.

Life is hard.

Nobody cares.

Go make it happen, beloveds. Make all the hard work for your good. All of it.

In the middle of quitting, I laughed.

I have too many folk to encourage. I can’t quit.

Neither can you. Get back up. Let’s go!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: A funny thing happened on my way to quitting. I found the strength to keep it moving. Who knew? God did. Life did. The Universe did. My dreams did. So does yours. Keep going.

There is too much in us, too much before us, and too much for us to do to give up just because of sustained hard. So what?! Keep it moving.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God asked me: What do you want?

God: WHAT do you want?

Me: I want to be financially free.

God: What DO you want?

Me: I want to help others.

God: What do YOU want?

Me: I want to encourage as many as I can.

God: What do you WANT?

Me: I want to be financially secure so I can spend my days encouraging and loving as many folks as I can.

Approval.

Recognition.

Validation.

Love.

Safety/security.

We all want these things don’t we, beloveds?

HOW/WHERE/WHEN shall we possess them?

Who are we supposed to be to have them?

What are supposed to do to have them?

Most folk don’t feel as though they were/are enough so that find themselves trying to be everybody else.

I don’t want to be anyone but me.

I want to live a life where I can enjoy the beauty of nature.

I want to be able to see beauty in my fellow man.

I want to enjoy a good cup of coffee.

I want…

What do YOU want, beloveds? It’s important to know what YOU want. Not what others want and demand for you.

Take the time to ask, if you have not. You may be surprised at what your heart truly wants for your life.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Have an amazing today.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Use hard for your good.

I am at an impasse.

I have run out of space to upload/export…*sigh*.

Geeez, God.

In times past, I would have been having ten fits and blaming the entirety of the world.

I have learned, I am learning still, HOW to maneuver and keep my joy through EVERY circumstance.

Joy has NOTHING to do with what happens or does not happen. Joy has nothing to do with what we have or don’t have.

Joy can be found and had in the bleakest of circumstances.

Be encouraged, beloveds. Don’t despair when you run out of room. You are doing al you know. All you can do is give what you have and ask The Universe to push things over the finish line.

I have done my part. I am fixing to have a cup of coffee and wait for amazing to show up.🥰😎

joyful in the middle of lack,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: We got this.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Listen: If you can’t find common ground, at least make it safe space.

My heart has been heavy watching folk tearing each other up for no reason other than they can.

No one seems to want to LISTEN.

Everyone is yelling ‘OW’ but nobody seems to want to stop long enough to ask what is hurting.

Folk seems gleeful of witnessing the suffering of others. My heart does NOT understand this.

We are all better than this.

I just stopped by to encourage folk.

If you can’t find common ground, at least make it safe space.

Listen.

Hear.

Empathize.

Care.

Rinse.

Repeat.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: We are all we got, beloveds. But, we are all we need. Life is more than money. Life is NOT climbing over others to achieve. Life is NOT meant to be hoarded just for a monied few.

Let’s give two hoots about one another, eh? Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God asked me: What do you see?

God: What do you see?

Me: I see a hurting world?

God: Give to them.

Me: I have nothing to give.

God: Give to them.

Me: All I have to give is me.

God: Give them you.

Me: What if I am not enough?

God: What if you are?

Me: Ah.

God: Aha!

All my life, beloveds, something inside me has been yanking at me. SOMETHING, from deep inside, just won’t let me go.

Why?

Because of YOU. Each and every one of you.

Why?

Because too many of you have never FELT love. Not really. You don’t think highly of you.

Why?

Because you have been chasing:

Approval.

Recognition.

Validation.

Love.

Safety/security.

Worse, you don’t feel as if you measure up enough to have “earned” these things.

Ah, beloveds, know ye not that you are infinitely priceless?

I think it funny that God put these words, this desire, in ME. In a me that had been made to feel worthless, by so many, for so long.

Because, I was loud. Because, I didn’t have enough this, that or the other. Because, I didn’t have money. Because, I didn’t live in the right neighborhood. Because, I wasn’t the right color.

Because. Because. Because. The world will ALWAYS have a because, beloveds. Why? So, you can fall for the okie doke. So, you can fall for the lie that you have to earn your keep.

Hear me:

You ARE worthy. You ARE worth it. You ARE worthwhile! So am I.

The world was desperate to keep me from KNOWING this. It’s the ONLY way it can keep us all locked in prisons of worthlessness.

Without worth, we feel hopeless. Without hope, any can roll up on us and take everything. Ha!

To this day, hopeless tries to slide in my DMs. I tell it to kick rocks!

I am worthy.

I am worth it.

I am worthwhile.

I have been working on this piece for almost two years. It took six months to write the question. It took months for me to ask myself the question. It took forever to find the courage to hear my heart’s answer.

It took 50 years to learn I was much more than the words, the gifts, the skills God gave me. I am awesome just cuz.

As are you! God asked me two other questions. I shall tackle the second tomorrow. The third, okay you get my point.

In the meantime, beloveds, be encouraged. Lift up your head. You are precious to me. And, to Him.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

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

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!