https://youtube.com/shorts/4XnM6Gc1yTc?si=C_7Ln40BQWFAiElI
True that!🥰
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Have an amazing day. Life too short to hop out of bed grumpy. Unless it’s your work day. Your day off coming, tho.🤣
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Don’t go back.
To old ways, just because you fear new paths.
Don’t go back.
To stinking thinking, just because opening your heart/mind to fresh perspectives is too scary to contemplate.
Don’t go back.
To easier ways, just because easier seems, well, easier.
Don’t go back.
Keep moving FORWARD. Keep looking UP!
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: We got this. I think.🤣
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
It’s Christmas Eve.
I wondered how I would feel. On THIS day. With wombie gone. For the first of many times.
I thought work would be hard. It wasn’t. I ordered a joyful day. This day, having been made for me, by the Lord, as the good book says.😎
So, I scrounged up some joy.
Grief stopped by. Asked if it could stay. I said only for a brief moment. I used that time for a teensy, weensy cry. I had things to do.
Sad saw grief. Asked if it could stay, too. I said heckamiah Jeremiah to the naw. I got thangs to do. I got about doing thangs…
I talked and laughed, with my work daughter. 🥰🤗
I gabbed with fam and friends, via text.
I made the Velveeta Shells and Cheese for Christmas dinner. 🥰😎👍
I made strawberry jello for dessert. My weight said NO Cool Whip to top off said jello…*pout*.
I decided to be efficient and yak at yall, whilst the chicken breasts cooked away in the air fryer.
Happily, joyfully, I pecked away until the smell of burning(?) chicken hollered from tue kitchen…huh?
Huh?
HUH?! OMG!!
*Cassandra rushes to the kitchen, took photo of the food crime scene, and updated the dinner list to include hockey pucks, formerly known as chicken breasts. 😳🤔🤷🏿♀️
I’m satisfied. I worked a week I was CERTAIN I would never make it through. I quit 50 times, during the week. I have Christmas off. Then, have to work Friday and will have the weekend off. A fair trade. I think 😳🤣
Be encouraged, beloveds. You can do so much more than you give yourself credit for. I am learning I can as well. In real time.
Have an amazing tomorrow.
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: 😁😎🥰🙏
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Q8Qr3dhGtx0?si=dsL4QIyY4_7q1Zut
We were meant, are called, to uplift one another. To love one another. To sing TOGETHER.
Beautiful!
a
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: 🙏🎯🤗🥰😎👍🧱💃🏽
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Tell quit to shut up and keep on moving!
Nuff said!
Haaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t THINK so fear!!
Take two and a half seats, doubt!!! I doubt you can keep up with me, you big dummy!!!
Leave me be, anxiety! God told me to be anxious for NOTHING, you big stupid!!
You day IS coming stupid enemy and you KNOW who I am talking to! Jesus got the keys to death, hell and the grave, you big, stupid dummy you! I will NOT allow you to kill, to steal, or to destroy anything! I do NOT give you permission to cut up ’round here!
Me, get your whining tail up and fight!!! You getting all up in your feels, for years, and blaming everyone BUT you is the reason you have spent decades running around the mountains you keep on harping to God, to Life, and to The Universe to remove. They told you how to deal with those jokers long time ago! Get to standing on FAITH! Get to standing ten toes down on BUSINESS. Believe in YOU! You know you can do this, Cassandra! You KNOW you can move FORWARD! You blasted KNOW how to look UP. Look UP. We got thangs to do!
*Cassandra turns away from the mirror, gets her act right acting right, grabs joy and goes off for a fantastic praise party to thank God for all this hard, to thank The Universe for not allowing her to punk out, to thank Life for requiring her to fight!*
We got this, beloveds. I promise we do. Please, please, please do not allow your feels to run your show. Your feels will drive you into a ditch, will make you cower and run the other way. Your feels are looking at data that may be incomplete, incorrect and straight up wrong.
Try. Try. Try some more. And, when that does not work…..try some more, already! There is NO quit in us. There is NO permission for us to give up on ourselves, on our dreams, on our futures, on our jobs, on our families, or whatever the world is getting on your last nerves.
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: We got this!!
Give yourself some dap/credit, beloveds.
You have been:
Doing the thing.
Been about being about it, even as you understood NONE of this current hard.
Made lemonade, instead of chucking them at your closest neighbor.
Try, when your try was TRYd out.
Gave, when you had nothing left to give( or so you thought).
Loved, though your love tank was not filled, in return.
Give yourself a smidge of credit! You are forever getting on yourself for your tiniest mistakes and missteps. Perhaps, beloveds, it’s high time for you to love on YOU, eh?
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I love me some you. Promise me, beloveds, you will do the same. Okay? ‘K? Okie Dokie?
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
The world wants to divide us.
Unite, instead.
Hate wants us to hate one another.
Love, instead.
Apathy wants us to throw our hands up in defeat.
Try harder, instead.
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: 🥰 I love yall. I truly do. I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to see my fellow man/woman/child as my/the enemy. No way, nada, not a chance, get the hecks on already!!
Beloveds, life is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo very short. Love folks. Who gives two hoots in ALL that is holy who voted for who, who got what in the bank, who lives where, who has this many followers, who has that 100,000 car they can NOT afford, who lives in that multi million dollar home the Jones can NOT afford the furniture for and are eating ramen noodles anyways!!!!!!????????
Whew. Yall going to have to excuse me. My twin is dead. My mom is gone. My dad is gone. I survived a tornado that did 30 million plus damage. I am learning job after having had to go 17 months to find. I ain’t got time for this world’s foolishness and neither do you.
Tomorrow is NOT promised. If you one of the 1% who is counting your stash whilst elderly/kids/veterans/disabled folks can’t eat, is the money worth it? If you are part of the 99% who are blaming those who do not look like you, for all/some/quite a bit of your problems and don’t think there is enough to go around to feed/clothe/sustain us all…*sigh*. No comment.
Yall, we can all do better by one another, can’t we? I’m trying to shine my light. I am trying to be a light. I am loving this hard-headed world the best I can, as hard as I can, for as long as I can. Some folk help me out wouldja please/thanks. Asking for A Friend. I love me some you.
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
https://youtube.com/shorts/H-JI4_ZDVkc?si=0h3iiCE2xLorc1Mm
Yall, I HAD to share this!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
sharing a laugh,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note:😎🤣🥰🤗🎯
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
When you want to quit…
don’t!
When ALL that is within you cries out to let go of your try…
don’t!
When ALL signs point to immediate and imminent disaster and failure is begging you to allow you to drag you to the pits of despair/I can’t/I don’t know how/Staying hurts too much…
don’t!
Cry, beloveds, if you have to. Fuss at hard for being too blessed hard and too hard a time, if need be. Stomp around, if you must.
Don’t you EVER, NEVA, YOU HAD BEST NOT allow those temporary things to give you to give up on you, on your try, on your dreams, on your future.
You can DO this, beloveds. You CAN, remember? You HAVE to, remember? You are NOT alone, remember?
Today was beyond hard. I wanted to run. I wanted to quit. Literally.
I was in such a state, beloveds, I cried out to God. This is what happened:
Me:
God: What’s wrong, beloved?
Me: I literally don’t know what to DO! I don’t know HOW to do my job!! I NEED this job. It took me 17 months to find it. I feel like an IDIOT. I do NOT like feeling like an idiot!!!!!!!
God: If I am understanding correctly, your pride is hurting? You DO realize/understand training actually does involve the uncomfortable feelings of feeling like an idiot until you learn enough NOT to feel like an idiot?
Me: Well, yea. Your saying it like THAT kinda makes it hard for me to gaslight myself by advising it’s not my fault I don’t know nuffin…*sigh*. What do I DO, though? I honestly have NO idea what I am doing and ready to cry, quit, go to bed for a month, in that order.
God: Call your big bro, give him your tears, ask for some brotherly advice as he has been where you are many times. You got this. I have been looking over your shoulder all day. Didn’t you feel a lightening of the hardest parts?
Me: Come to think of it, I DID hear a whisper to hang in there before I acted too much of a fool. Hold on while I call big bro. Brb…
Me to big bro:
Big bro(listening intently): Did you so and so and such and such? Can you yet hither and yon over there and everywhere? Have you and are you doing ALL you know?
Me(Crying all over big bro shoulders): Well, yea.
Big bro: Keep doing what you are doing. Keep trying. It takes time. Give yourself the time. Do as you have been asked. Nothing more. The outcome is NOT up to you. All you are required to do is as was asked/required. I will submit your tears to God. Hang in there.
Me:
Me: I did it, God! I did the day! I didn’t quit! I refused to allow my pride, my embarrassment, my feels to run the show. How great is that?!
God: That is fantastic, beloved. Remember, these trials are NOT here to trip you up. Life happens. To everyone. These fiery trials are meant to continue to bring out the diamond already in you. They are meant to teach you that you CAN make it. They are there to SHOW you, in REAL TIME, that you CAN take it. IF, you trust. IF, you keep on keeping on. IF, you continue to move FORWARD. IF, you keep telling failure/doubt/anxiety and ALL their ilk where to get off, where to land, when/where/how to kick rocks and trust ME. I promise I will NOT allow you to fail…too much…hehe.
Me: That’s cold, God. I hear You, though. I have zero plans on ending my day on THAT disastrous shift. How about a praise party? I already have Billy and Saran Gaines “Promised Land” blasting away?
God: Let’s go!!
*Cassandra gets about being about being about it with a well earned praise party. Who is joining me?
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Hang in there, beloveds. You truly CAN do so much more than you think or feel as though you can’t…hehe. I truly wanted to walk out, quit, cry, cry about quitting and walking out.
Beloveds, I am sooooooooooooooooooooo very thankful I did NOT quit. I would have been sooooooooooooo disappointed in and with me. Yes, I probably would have FELT better for all of two seconds. Until, I realized you just quit you big dummy and it took almost a year and a half to find this job and now you have to start ALL over and have to go through the same anxiety with a new job and learning new processes!!!!!! Whew, and heckemiah, Cassandra!
Be encouraged. I am showing how the sausage is truly made so folks can hang in there. There are too many folks who walk around pretending they don’t hurt, that life doesn’t hurt, that they don’t question God, that they don’t vehemently WANT to quit when hard gets ridiculously hard and at THIS time of year.
I know this has been a longer piece. Bear with me. Someone NEEDED this. Especially me. We got this, yall. We really do. I think this is giving me the courage to go back and start recording more uplifting videos in my channels. I had been sooooooooooooooooooo discouraged and secretly quit but didn’t tell anyone, especially me. I CAN. I WILL. I HAVE to. I’m going to do my utmost to do so if I am only recording uplifting videos only I see. Maybe, one day, someday, someone will happen by when they are at their wit’s end as I was today but they don’t have a brother, or know God, as I do, to get encouragement. I shall make the videos for THEM/HIM/HER. Be encouraged, beloveds. 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!
What do you see when you look at yourself?
What do you feel when you look at yourself?
Why do you judge yourself so harshly?
Life is short. Love yourself. Receive yourself. Accept yourself. If you are out of pocket, fix those things.
If you’re doing the best you can, acknowledge that you’re doing the best you can, and keep it moving.
My work system kept messing up. In the past I would have been soooo frustrated. I don’t anymore. It is what it is.
A lot of things that happen to get to you. Do what you can. Fix what you can. Get what help you can. Then, laugh and keep it moving.
Have an amazing today. Remember, you can start over as many times in a day as you need to.
Be sure to laugh. Be sure to love someone starting with you. I love you.
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: We can’t have our phones on during the work day. This has turned out to be such a blessing. It has kept out so much negativity. I don’t have to worry about doom scrolling. I have been able to concentrate fully on my job. I have left family and friends know when I am available. This has left me extra time to just breathe and focus. You should try it sometime.
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Why Can't I Be Loud?! 