Author: Cassandra S.

Life is more than hard things.

Life can be hard.

Life is more than hard things.

Life is much more than enduring hardness.

Life is sooooooooooooo full.

Of life!

Live it!

Live!!

Stop surviving life.

Stop using distraction to hide from life.

Face your hard, beloveds, then get on with your life.

ALL of it.

The hard is simply life momentarily being hard.

Hard is never here to stay. Unless, you are being hard-headed and not listening to life and it’s happenings.

Be encouraged. I say this almost daily. Why? I needed to be reminded. Daily.

Life is more than hard things.

living amidst the hard,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Nuff said. You are so much farther than you know. Keep going.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

We need the wilderness.

We need the wilderness.

All of it.

We need the struggle.

Every inch of it.

We need the hard.

Every pound of it.

We need the heat.

Every second of it.

We need the darkness.

Every day of it.

We need the lack.

Every part of it

We need the fight.

Every round of it.

We need the randomness.

Every moment of it.

We need the depth.

Every mile of it.

We need the lonely.

Every morsel of it.

Why?

Great question!

Keep asking.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

If you are in the wilderness take comfort. This period is important in your life. Keep wondering. Keep wandering. You are exactly were you supposed to be at this time in your life. God has factored everything into the equation.

Your fear, your hesitation, your doubt, your frustration, your anger, your own believe, your faith, your lack thereof, your try have been factored into the equation.

Enjoy your life. Embrace what happens in your day. Don’t forget to happen to your day. There are no victims here, beloveds.

Love someone, starting with you. Pass on some love to me as well.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I no longer care about the obstacles.

I no longer care about the obstacles.

Obstacles, now beloveds, are now just that. Obstacles.

Not:

Deal breakers.

Negative life changers.

Fear inducers.

Excuse makers.

Doubt increasers.

Now, beloveds, obstacles are just obstacles in my way.

Obstacles are just things needing to be:

Removed.

Overcome.

Laughed at.

Obstacles, I am learning are:

Teachers.

Faith builders.

Way makers.

Belief instillers.

Tools used by God, by Life, by The Universe to aid in my quest.

Ah.

Aha!

Obstacle used to drive me up 10 walls. Don’t get me wrong, beloveds. They still good on my last nerve. I have just learned to do with them.

I am learning, still, to try and remove as many as I can. With those I can’t move, I asked for help with.

To me, now, obstacles are just question makers now. They asked me if I am still willing to try. They asked me in my still willing to fight. They asked me how much my dreams I worth. They make me question why I am doing what I am doing.

Obstacles, I find, by my biggest cheerleaders. Obstacles, roofer me to keep on keeping on. Obstacles, demand I keep removing them so I can get to my dreams.

I promised myself I would not give up on my dreams. I promise obstacles I what fight them every day for the rest of my life. I have no idea how long that live shall last.

In the meantime, I fight on.

Keep on fighting, beloveds. Keep moving your own obstacles. Keep believing in you. Keep asking for the help you need. Keep walking by faith and not by what you see.

Your mountains shall move. Yet, your mountains are moving.

All this fighting has me hungry. I hear chicken strips calling my name…

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

We are more.

We are more, beloveds.

Much more than a number.

Much more than click bait.

Much more than a paycheck.

Much more than a like.

Much more than a subscription.

Much more.

We are:

Worthy.

Worthwhile.

Worth it.

We can:

Be.

Have.

Do.

Why?

Just because we are.

Period.

Nuff said.

End of story.

I have been studying and studying and studying and studying. Rinse. Repeat.

The more I have learned, beloveds, the more I have learned what I do, what I love, what I aspire to DO does not have a pot of gold at the end of the financial 🌈 rainbow.

That said, NOTHING is more priceless to me than these words:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

It saddens me how many folk who don’t hear this on the regular. It keeps me up at night.

I ask God EVERY day/night what I can do. I ask The Universe EVERY day/night what I can do. I ask Life EVERY day/night what I can do.

This is the time of year that’s the hardest. Work becomes super busy. My hands super tired. My mind, from work, exceedingly exhausted.

I want to write and just toooooooooo tired. Yet, how can I not?

There are too many folks who are judging themselves because of a past they never asked for.

There are too many folk alone because of thinking themselves unworthy because of what they don’t possess.

There are too many folk who are bleeding to death in plain sight. Hidden behind glass walls  prettily made up so folks can’t see the hurt, the sad, the angry, the lonely inside.

We are more.

We are.

God, I am trying to be more. Open the windows of heaven for me.

asking as Your Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I wish I knew how, beloveds. Until I find out, I give the oyster crackers I have/am. I wish I had baskets and baskets of bread where I could feed the world. Ah, God, why You pressing me so? Make it so or leave me to lead my small life. Stop telling me I can change the world with MY words. Ack. Crap.

Be encouraged. Why? Because, I may need you to encourage me.

Egads! How morbid was that?!😳🤷‍♀️

We are more, beloveds. Embrace you. ALL of you. Enjoy you. ALL of you. Let this world see you. ALL of you. There are folk who will love you for the rest of your days. Let ’em in please and thanks. Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I did not want to laugh today. I did.

I did not want to laugh today.

I did.

I did not wish to tell jokes today.

I did not feel like starting again today.

I did.

I did not care to have to care today.

I did.

I did not need to share my hurt with my sis today.

I did.

I wanted to run away and hide today.

I didn’t.

Not today.

Will I tomorrow?

Beats me. I am living one day at a time!

going even when I don’t want to,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I woke up in a vaguely annoyed mood. I have not been able to sleep much. Work has been ssoooooooooooooooooooooooo much work. Too much, in fact. Life has been soooooooooooooooo much work. Much too much, in fact. Remaining steadfast and hopeful has been sooooooooooooooooo much work. Much, much tooooooooooooooo much, in fact…*sigh*.

I am also vaguely annoyed as I am unable to take a long drive. I have not driven my car in forever and need to have her serviced and possibly a new battery. Finances, time, finances AND time, has been getting in the way of that.

To be blunt, finances AND time are also getting in the way of my dreams!!! Ack!! Crap!!

To be more truthful, I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired of finances and time getting in the way of my dreams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*sigh*

Be encouraged. Especially, when you feel the most discouraged/disappointed/annoyed/fill in the rest.

I love you.

So does He.


One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Geeez!: Where did YOU come from?!

Me:: Geeez!

God: You rang?

Me: Where did YOU come from?!

God: I am always near. I always hear. Even when you don’t think Me around.

Me: Geeez!

God: Yep.

Me:….hhmmm. Do You mean You were around when I kinda/sorta really messed up that one time with that one thing or other?

God: Yep.

Me: Wow.

Life: Wow. And, He stuck around after THAT?! Not saying…

The Universe: Wow. That was a doozy. Just saying…

God: Yea, I told her NOTHING would separate My Love from her.

Me: Even THAT!?

Life: Even THAT!?

The Universe: Even THAT!!!!?

God: Especially THAT. Anyone can love when loving is easy. True and lasting love loves no matter what. Yes, there are consequences but love ALWAYS loves.

Me: True that.

Life: True that.

The Universe: True that.

God: So, what we/are you so upset about?

Me:…*shrug*…thinking of Your Love made me forget why the world I was so whatever the world I was. Your Lap chases away my everythings.

God: Beloved, you ARE My Everything.

Me: Awww, God.

Life: Awwww.

The Universe: Awwww.

mooning cuz I am loved,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

Isn’t it nice to know we are never alone? Life can feel so very lonely. The heart needs to be seen. The heart needs to be loved. The hardest to be known.

The whole trick to life is knowing we are loved the not alone. This is why this blog exists. This is why exists. To let you know you are loved and you are not alone.

Period. End of story. Your life IS the greatest story ever told in God’s Book. In His Eyes.

Just because you are currently looking at your tender heart through warped/stained/smeared glasses, does not mean God/Life/The Universe looks at you this way.

Ease up on you, beloveds! Enough judging your heart so blasted harshly! Enough!

How much longer, beloveds, will you get on you for not being where you thought, where you hoped, where you imagined you would be?

I have to remind myself of this. On the daily. On the regular. It is a pppppaaaaaaaaaain, I tell you! To keep on keeping on.

I fight ME, beloveds. EVERY day. EVERY DAMNED DAY MY BLASTED DREAMS DON’T COME TRUE ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whew.

Keep going, okay? You are builiding such a legacy the whole of the world shall see it long after your last steps have been taken.

Go on now. We got thangs to do!

doing thangs with you,

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

There is beauty within us.

There is beauty with us.

Within ALL of us.

It’s hard to believe, at times. The world is appearing to be sooooooooooooooooo very dark.

For the past few months I have been researching what content the world will/wants to receive. Alas, beloveds, the world appears to crave all manner of foolishness and awful.

What sells, apparently, is piling as much grossness, mockery, cruelty, harshness, unbelief to as many folks as who can press send or open an app or social media account.

The content creators who are making the most money are wreaking the most havoc. They have embraced the mindset in which the ends justify the means.

“Make your bag(money)!”

“Do you. Don’t worry who gets hurt”.

“They should not have been gullible enough to believe my hustle(lies)”.

“They should have known this is/was too good to be true.”

“I’m getting mine.”

“You owe me.”

“Life owes me.”

“The government owes me.”

“Family owes me.”

“I don’t have to.”

“Take whatever you want.”

“Climb the ladder. Climb over whoever gets in your way.”

*sigh*

It’s high time we all got back on the high road. I can’t force folk to go. I can only make the choice to stay on the high road. And, to pray, others turn from their foolishness and join me.

There IS beauty within us. We just have to choose to express our beauty. Enough flashing the ugly.

Life is short. Choose to care for others. Choose to turn from profitable things that only profit foolishness and destruction.

Rant over. Let’s get on with planting this world with our beautiful, eh beloveds?

There is not enough money to make me choose to tear the world down to make a 💵 dollar more than I have now. I am doing my best to leave the world a better place than whence I found it. How about you?

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Um, the whole piece was a not. Sheeesh.🤣♥️🔥🥰

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Motivation can kick rocks today.

I’m not motivated.

Not today.

So what?

I fight on.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I told motivation to kick rocks today. Motivation told me to shut up. Yikes! I fight on.

Yesterday was the first day of spring. It still looks and feels like winter. Feelings have nothing to do with it. Today feels like a year long already. I got up early. I am hoping to run into my dreams today. If you see them, tell them I am waiting.

I suppose I should say something inspiring here. Insert something inspiring here. Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Bring out the best in you not the rest of you.

Bring out the best in you, not the rest of you.

Anybody can complain when things are hard.

Most give up when the heat is on.

Too many doubt they can so they don’t even start.

Stop giving yourself an excuse to quit.

Bring out the best in you not the rest of you.

Tell lazy to shut up.

Tell fear to kick rocks.

Tell yourself to get up and try.

Then get up and try.

Don’t worry about the outcome. The outcome is up to The Universe to take care of.

Life is short, beloveds. What or who are you waiting for?!

chasing down my dreams,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, um, so what the world are you doing here?

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Give new a chance.

I used to be set in my ways.

I fight wanting to stay set in old ways.

Take, for example, my sports. There are certain commentators I like. I have watched them for years.

I never cared for new commentators. I didn’t want to give them a chance. I knew it wasn’t fair. I was used to what I was used to.

I told myself to give new folks the chance I have been wanting the world to give to me.

I have been forcing myself to not put folk in a box. I told myself to stop predetermining how I think they will be. To just let them BE! I told myself I would NOT judge them. Because of their age. Or, by MY perception of how much they may or may not know.

I have been enjoying things from THEIR perspective. I am finding new enjoyment by doing this.

I have been working on doing this in as many areas as I can.

It has been refreshing to SEE the good in others and not the what in the fresh hell is that?!😳

Life is short. Yes, we need to hold ourselves and each other accountable for our stupid. We also have to allow room for each other’s stupidity. 😆♥️

Be encouraged. If no one has told you today: I love you.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Give new a chance. You’ll be glad you did.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!