Be encouraged.
Don’t give up.
Not just yet, beloveds.
Maybe, perhaps, perchance, God truly DID spare me, from THAT tornado to tell someone, to tell ME THIS:
Be encouraged, Cassandra. You CAN get through THIS. You CAN survive THIS. You CAN make it through THIS. You SHALL conquer/triumph over THIS.
Now, beloveds, I have NO idea what your THIS is. I don’t know how many of THIS you have to stomach/endure/overcome/survive etc.
I just know you CAN. I just know you WILL. How do I KNOW this? Because, God has promised we would/could.
Yea, I know, there are perhaps/perchance/could be many unbelievers up in this WordPress house. I even know there are some secret backsliders, many who kinda/sorta/happened to quiet quit God without telling Him, without being completely 100 with themselves. That’s okay. I get it. What’s more, HE gets it.
I have enough faith for all of us. Okay, maybe, for sure, for sure, my faith has been and is being shaken/stirred/smashed/used, right now. That’s okay. My faith has and can take a licking and keep on ticking, as the old Timex commercials always said…lol.
I am currently listening to CeCe Winans singing ‘Never Lost’. He has never lost. Never will! Be encouraged. Everything truly shall come out, in the wash.
In the meantime, hang in there. I KNOW, beloveds, that you probably want to wop me upside the head. When my big brother told me to be encouraged, to stay positive, to stay focused, to not allow anger/grief to stay too long, I wanted soooooooooooooooooooooo badly to tell him to shut all the way up.
I didn’t. He was right. There truly IS no good time for loved ones to leave us. There really IS no good time for hard to stay soooooooooooooooooooooo continuously hard.
God knows. Life understands. The Universe has been there and done that.
We truly CAN do all things through Him that loves us. Truly, NO weapon formed against us shall prosper. Those in the back, say amen. Can a sista get an amen corner up in the WordPress house?
I REFUSE to end my day on hard so me and joy having a nice concert. Who wants to chair dance with us?
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I didn’t volunteer to be an example for all this blessed hard. Still, us encouragers gotsa encourage no matter what, no matter where, no matter when, no matter who. No fair, God! Geeeeeeeez, already. Can a sista get an extra treat from You and not so many lemons for the rest of the week? And, can you spare some extra treats for all my buds up in here who have diligently kept up with me and my foolishness? They need extras just for THAT!….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!
Have an amazing rest of your week, beloveds. Get ready to enjoy 2026. Promise me you will NOT take 2025 anxt into 2026, k? K.
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!


Hi Cassandra, this is such an inspiring message. Thank you for sharing! I’ve started a community at peacewalking.org, and I wanted to invite you to join and post a simple message of peace for the community. Feel free to include a link to your blog as well to hopefully get our members to see more of your posts as well.
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I will be glad to do so. Thanks for thinking of me. What tough sledding these last few weeks have been. Even hard is feeling a might sorry for me. Be encouraged. We SHALL find a way some kind of way. I am going to head over your way either in the morning or when I get off work, tomorrow. Work was so worky I have just enough energy to reply to you.
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