Month: September 2026

BEGINNING AGAIN DOES NOT ERASE BEFORE.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2026

BEGINNING AGAIN DOES NOT ERASE BEFORE
BEGINNING AGAIN DOES NOT ERASE BEFORE

Beloveds,

Late but here!…lol

I know something about beginning again.

I also know beginning again can sound prettier in motivational language than it feels in an actual life.

Sometimes beginning again is exciting.

Sometimes it is infuriating.

Sometimes you are beginning again because you chose something new.

Sometimes life chose it for you.

Those are not the same experience.

I do not need to insult the woman I was before in order to honor the woman I am becoming now.

I do not have to call the old life worthless because the new life requires courage.

I can grieve what changed and still participate in what remains.

I can miss what my body used to do and still love the body carrying me today.

I can remember an easier voice and still claim the voice that is mine now.

I can say, “This is hard,” without translating that sentence into, “This is hopeless.”

Isaiah 43:19 says, “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?” KJV

My faith tells me God can work in the new.

It does not require me to pretend the old did not matter.

And Beloveds who do not believe as I do, there is room for you in this conversation too.

Beginning again belongs to human beings, not only believers.

🔑 The key is not erasing yesterday.

The key is refusing to let yesterday be the only place where your life was allowed to be real.

You matter to me.

What are you beginning again without apologizing for how much the first version mattered?

Asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe

Keep doing you!

Beloveds,

I had to stop by to encourage someone. Starting with me.

I’m still me. This stroke keeps cutting up by I am fighting back. My face keeps changing with the droops.

I’m still  cute!

My dreams are STILL before me. So, are yours. Stop feeling sorry for your lot and seize these moments.

I don’t feel disabled. I feel capable. I feel excited. I feel exhausted. I feel everything all at once.

I feel…

Ah.

Aha!

Don’t be ashamed of how you look. Embrace ALL of you.

We go thangs to do, beloveds! Let’s get to loving someone. Starting with me.

Cassandra

KEEP DREAMING…

 Beloveds,

Just stopped by to encourage someone. Starting with me.

I posted this March 2025. I still believe.  Still…

Cassandra

SUNDAY

🌤️🪑 SUNDAY

Beloveds,

Come sit down.

That’s it.

That’s the invitation.

🪑

You don’t have to bring anything.

You don’t have to explain anything.

You don’t have to solve anything before you sit.

And you certainly don’t have to show up here pretending you have everything together.

It’s Sunday.

Let Sunday be Sunday.

🥰

Yesterday we had our popcorn.

🍿🎬

We watched a movie.

We laughed.

Maybe we noticed some things.

Maybe we carried a thought or two away from the screen.

But today?

I’m not handing out assignments.

🤣

I’m protecting a little space for rest.

🔑

I’ve been thinking a lot about the chair I keep putting beside me.

The chair has become one of my favorite things in this little 🌎 we’re building together.

Because the chair says something before I ever do.

Come.

Sit.

You are welcome here.

🪑

Believer?

Pull up a chair.

Not a believer?

Pull up a chair.

Certain?

Chair.

Doubting?

Chair.

Still figuring out what you believe?

Chair.

Agree with me?

Chair.

Disagree with me?

Yep.

Still a chair.

🤣🪑

Different race.

Different culture.

Different politics.

Different body.

Different ability.

Different story.

Different questions.

Different life.

There is still room.

Because you do not have to resolve before you belong.

🔑

I don’t want to build a little corner of the world where everybody has to become the same before we can care about one another.

We can have distinctions without turning those distinctions into distance.

We can disagree without deciding somebody has stopped being human.

We can listen without surrendering everything we believe.

We can learn.

We can laugh.

We can change.

We can stay.

We can leave room for mystery.

And sometimes we can simply sit beside each other for a while.

🪑🪑

That matters to me.

Especially on Sunday.

Because there will always be another thing to accomplish.

Another problem to solve.

Another conversation to have.

Another piece to write.

Another Monday coming.

👀🤣

Monday can wait its turn.

Today is not Monday wearing slippers.

🤣

Today gets to breathe.

So do you.

🌤️

Rest if you can.

Laugh if something is funny.

Eat something you enjoy.

Listen to something beautiful.

Watch something just because you want to watch it.

Look out the window.

Call somebody you love.

Say a prayer.

Take a nap.

Do absolutely nothing impressive.

You do not have to turn your rest into homework about rest.

🔑

And when the new week arrives, we’ll meet it then.

There are more stories ahead.

More questions.

More keys.

More things to notice about ourselves and each other.

More opportunities to love this beautiful, complicated 🌎 a little better.

We’ll get there.

One step.

One step.

One step.

But not today.

Today?

Pull up a chair.

🪑

Stay awhile.

There is room for you here.

There always was.

You matter to me.

🔑

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

🪑🌤️

WAKE UP WITH FAITH — Listen Before You Start Your Day

Cassandra

Pat Benatar – Love Is A Battlefield (Official Music Video)

Pat Benetar is HER!

Singing for you, big bro.

Cassandra

Count It All Joy

Beloveds,

Life is short. 

I love this song. It’s about understanding that God won’t give us more than we can bear. W everything really will be alright.

Fixing to have a concert to celebrate my big bro life.

RIH, big bro.

Be encouraged!

loving me some you,

Cassandra

I miss ME!

I miss ME.

Nuff said.

Cassandra

I hate it takes 15 minutes to cover myself with a damn blanket!

I miss going to the bathroom in a few minutes instead of at least an hour!

I miss driving my 🚗!

I miss mom!

I miss my twin

Now I am too sick to lay my big brother to rest!

Shit!

Cassandra

Friday, September 18, 2026

Friday, September 18, 2026

YOU ARE STILL HERE — AND HERE IS A PLACE

Beloveds,

We made it to Friday.

Not everybody arrived triumphantly.

Somebody crawled.

Somebody coasted.

Somebody changed the plan four times.

Somebody did the bare minimum and had to call that enough.

Somebody surprised themselves.

Somebody is still waiting for the thing they hoped would change this week.

Welcome.

This week we talked about rest, beginning again, voice, agency, and joy.

None of those subjects requires a perfect ending by Friday afternoon.

Life is not a weekly television episode.

Sometimes the victory is not resolution.

Sometimes the victory is presence.

Psalm 118:24 says, “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” KJV

For me, that rejoicing does not mean denying what hurts.

It means this day still contains life.

If you do not share my belief, I hope you can still receive this:

Your unfinished life is not an unworthy life.

🔑 You do not have to wait until everything is fixed to belong here.

You matter to me.

Bring the wheelchair.

Bring the cane.

Bring the running shoes.

Bring the grief.

Bring the laughter.

Bring the questions.

Bring the faith.

Bring the doubt.

Bring yourself.

There is a chair.

Tomorrow, I am going to the movies. 🍿🎬

And we are going to see what we see.

Asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

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Beloveds,

Life is hard for all right now.  I stopped by to encourage someone.  Starting with me.

FIGHT!

LIVE!

LOVE!

Hold the line!

KEEP STANDING TEN TOES DOWN!!

still we RISE,

Cassandra