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.
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?!
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.
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.🥰😎
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.
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.
I had been tired of using the excuse that I didn’t know how. I didn’t know where. I didn’t know who.
I was tired of crying about not having the “opportunity”.
I knocked. I knocked. I knocked.
Nothing.
I decided to knock down the walls of my doubt. I determined to destroy ever section of “I can’t”. I decided…
I decided?!
Ah.
Aha!
Then, I told myself I was going to find a way, make a way, or be the way. Periodt!
To that resolve, beloveds, I have determined to BE my mission statement.
I have no idea where my journey is taking me. That said, I plan on enjoying every frustrating and hard step. These are the steps ordered for me. I shall skip a while…
being about that life, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Be your mission statement. Hopefully, your mission statement is a helpful one. 🤗🤣😁😎🥰❤🙏🎯
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