Category: faith

When you feel helpless.

When you feel helpless.

Help yourself.

When you feel helpless.

Help someone else.

When you feel helpless.

Ask for help.

When we are in a weakened state, we often feel:

Helpless.

Hopeless.

Useless.

Of course, these are lies. It’s easy to believe the lie when our mountain looks soooooooooo big and unmovable.

When my mountain seems the most daunting, I reach out to someone to let them know they are loved and not alone.

Then, I DO something. Even if just a small something. Through this constant hard I am learning I can’t afford to lay down on fear or anxiety. The MOMENT I get to feeling anxious is the moment I leap out of bed.

I have been leaping out of bed well before dawn, these days…*shrug*.

If nothing else, beloveds, this hard may be encouraging others to keep on trying. I didn’t want to, today. So what? I got thangs to do. As do you.

My 56th birthday is Sunday. Wow. The majority of my ‘friends’ have long since taken off as I am sure they think I may ask them for money. I haven’t. I wouldn’t. It sure would have been nice to have that emotional support. I am supporting me as much as possible.

I am also leaning on and leaning into the love of my fam. I used to hide my hurt and be there for them. No more.

Anywho, I stopped ’round to give someone some of the support I could use.

If anyone would like to send some birthday cheer, feel free to email me: ttnette37@yahoo.com. I won’t put you on blast and would only reply back once with a thank you unless you would like to be an email pal.😁🥰

Take care of your heart and enjoy your weekend.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I have never felt so helpless in my life. Yet, am content. Odd, eh? I am looking forward to seeing how The Universe is going to help me out of my financial mess…lol

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Be the reason why.

Be the reason why someone smiles.

Don’t be the reason for another’s struggle.

Be the reason someone laughs.

Don’t be the reason someone cries.

Be the reason a burden is lifted.

Don’t be the reason for the heavy load.

Life is tough for us all, beloveds. Determine to be one who is determined to be the reason that light shines in the darkness.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: There is so much going on it can be easy to believe our efforts will be in vain. EVERY try matters. EVERY word, spoken in love, matters. EVERY step towards light and life matters.

You can do much more than you think. Love folk. Especially the hard-headed ones. Yep, love even the folk who speak foolishness. 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!

If this piece encouraged you, share it with someone please/thanks.

Sometimes, I would like to extinguish the flame inside.

Sometimes, I would like to extinguish the flame inside.

Sometimes, I want to run from this desire to be more and to do more. Sometimes, I wish the dreams inside would fade so I can lead an ordinary life and not filled so pulled to extraordinary way.

Sometimes, I wish I did not want more. Sometimes, I wish I did not want at all.

Sometimes, I wish my try wouldn’t try so hard. Sometimes, I wonder why I try at all.

Ah, sometimes, I’d like to walk away. Oh, sometimes, I want to run.

Only sometimes.

wondering what’s next,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I find myself unsettled. I wish I knew how to get back my familiar…sometimes.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Fight: Can I talk to you?

I want you to fight, beloveds.

I want you to fight for you.

I want you to fight for your dreams.

Too many, beloveds, have given up.

I used to be one of them. One of the secret ones. One of the ones who had secretly ceded the ground of their dreams.

Why?

Why not?

I was nothing.

I was no one.

I was no import. At least, that’s what the world told this black, female, loud and worthless hide.

For too many years, beloveds, I fought for everyone but me. Me, I hid. Me, I refused to champion.

Why?

Because I was a nobody, remember?

Yet, something inside me absolutely refused to believe this about me. THIS rose up, in me. THIS became my why: To let folk KNOW they were loved and NOT alone.

That folk are worthy. That folk are worthwhile. That folk are worth it. They are. We are. I am. You are.

Now, I fight. Every day. Every single damned day. I fight for you. I fight for me. I fight for us all.

Dammit, God, fight with me. Send some folk to help me. I can’t reach them all. Can/will you?

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Do THIS, beloveds. Whatever your THIS is. I would give my last dollar to be able to show a million folk how much they are loved and cared for. My dollars don’t stretch that far. All I can send are my love. Crap. Just doesn’t seemed to be a damned enough! Is it?…😥😡🎤

Be encouraged. I am foolish enough to believe these words will set someone free. I hope. Hope with me…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

If this piece encouraged you, share it with someone please/thanks.

Hey world, I need to give you…

Hey world, I need to give you…

World I’m 📢 :

Annoyed with you. You have been telling us lies, for the entirety of our lives.

You have called black, white.

You have said up, was down.

You have called this, that.

You have called write, wrong.

You have convinced folk to:

👉 Point the finger, instead of extend the 🤝 hand.

Choose hate, over love.

Bearing arms, instead of bearing arm’s❤️‍🩹.

Broken barriers, instead of building/mending fences.

Fear diversity, instead of embracing differences.

I’m keeping it 💯, world.

I am so damned loud, in part, because of you. I am doing my best to let the whole of the world know each are:

Seen.

Heard.

Loved.

Valued.

Not alone.

You shall NOT overcome us, world. You, in fact, have been overcome.

Keep folks names out of your mouth!

Leave folks be so they can just be!

Take your expectations, world, and:

Kick rocks!

Take TWO seats!

Be afraid. Be very afraid!

We are coming for you, world.

I’m keeping it a buck with you!

Enough!

keeping it a buck,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Sometimes, beloveds, one needs to take a stand. Ha! Keeping it 100…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Faith: What are you standing on?

I am standing on business!

I am standing on FAITH!

I am finished with standing on lack. Get gone, lack! You lack interest for me. I ain’t got time/room for you, in my life no mo’!

Be gone!

After the tornado, I had to decide what I was going to rebuild upon. I chose faith. I chose hope. I chose love. I chose God. I chose belief. I chose ME.

Life is forever forcing us to make choices.

What do you choose, beloveds?

What do you CHOOSE to stand on? You can’t blame what happens. What happens, shall happen. What you CHOOSE to DO/HAVE/BE after, is completely up to you.

What say you?

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I am standing on faith. Finally. Absolutely. Without fear. Without apology. I root for you as you decide to do the same. In the meantime, take another step. In case no one has told you yet today: I love you. So does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

There is too much in you.

Beloveds, there is too much in you to quit.

There is too much faith in you.

There is too much life in you.

There is too much hope in you.

Don’t let the hard discourage you.

Get up and get back in the fight.

You got this.

God has you.

The Universe fights with/for you as you stand again.

cheering you on,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You got this, beloveds. Go on, now. You are tired only because you have been fighting for so long it seems as if long will stay with you always. It won’t. Victory is fixing to slide right next to you.

Get ready, beloveds! Rush out in the streets with your buckets. It is fixin’ to rain!!!

Ah, Life. We ready. Give us our bounties! Asking for many friends…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Keep trying.

The more I try, the less I see come to fruition. I don’t know why. I’m not doing anything differently. I’m not trying any less hard. I’m still giving my all. my all just seems to be giving me less.

I tell myself to keep trying. I have been dragging fear and doubt everywhere with me lately. I don’t know why they won’t leave me alone. Maybe they think I will give up if they stick around. Maybe hopeless things I will become hopeless due to the lack of outcomes I see.

Thankfully, I am learning not to rely on the outcomes. I would have given up a long time ago that had been a case. I would have stopped writing two or three years ago. Hell, I probably would have stopped writing last week.

The universe is silent right now. God seems to have packed up His toys and walked away. I don’t know where He is hiding. I don’t know where to find me. Still, I promised myself I would continue going on. I promised myself I would continue to be about being about it.

55 keeps laughing at me. she tells me to sit down somewhere. I am just too damned to want to make some dreams come true. on days like today, I want to believe her. Still, something inside of me keeps saying that there’s more to this life I have been living. Something inside, just won’t let me quit. Something inside, just won’t let me stop reaching out to a world who could give two damns about me.

Keep trying, beloveds. Today, just may be your day. Today, just maybe my day. We will never know unless we seize this time and this day.

Be encouraged. Keep moving forward. The way is hard. It was never meant to be easy. Besides, we eat hard for breakfast!

We have nothing to lose. We have a whole world to gain.

Stop focusing on the outcome. Discouragement lives there. Keep trying then enjoy the rest of your day. Speaking of which, I hear cup of coffee calling. Who is up for a cup?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You can do it. You will do it. Keep believing in yourself. There’s much more to you than you know. You got this. Sometimes, we just need someone to tell us we can do it. You can. 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!

Give yourself permission.

Give yourself permission, beloveds.

Give yourself permission to try.

Give yourself permission to dream.

Give yourself permission to stop.

Give yourself permission to start over.

Give yourself permission to rest.

Give yourself permission to walk away.

Give yourself permission to return.

Give yourself permission to fail.

Give yourself permission to succeed.

Give yourself permission to win.

Give yourself permission to lose.

Give yourself permission to rejoice.

Give yourself permission to grieve.

Give yourself permission to love.

Give yourself permission to be loved.

Give yourself permission to age gracefully, without apology.

Give yourself permission to express your youth with exuberance, no matter your age.

Finally, beloveds, give yourself permission to…

Ah, beloveds, you tell me!

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I am as vulnerable as I have ever been. I FINALLY shared my biggest need with my fam:

I need to find out who I am APART from being beholden and available to/for them 24/7. Doing so has been all I have ever known. Ever.

55 years. Just in case. Maybe I will be needed. I can’t go. Someone might need me for something at a crucial moment.

As a strong, black woman, I am supposed to forever be there for the whole damned world. I have been.

A while ago, God asked me three questions:

What do YOU want?

What do you see?

Why are you here?

I have been running from those questions. God ain’t supposed to be asking about ME?!😳🤔

See, beloveds, God is supposed to be this big narcissistic God that needs me to forever be doing this, that and every other thing for Him, for the world and to hell with me and MY needs. I’m not supposed to have any needs. Right?!🤔😳

To my surprise, to my consternation, to my sincere gratitude, God refused to stay in the box society tries so desperately to keep Him in.

Now, I find myself slap dab against these three questions. Ah, God, what shall I be/have/do at answers end?

I am tiptoeing closer to them. You shall see my answers soon. Perhaps. Maybe.

Ah, God. I’m afraid. Of what I may learn about me. I’m afraid of what You may think of my answers. What if I fail this pip quiz? Asking for a friend(me).

Come with me, beloveds. Let’s find out together:

What do YOU want?

What do you see?

Why are you here?

Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Don’t stay because of fear.

Don’t stay in a relationship because of fear.

Move on.

A HEALTHY relationship awaits you.

Don’t stay in a job because of fear.

A REWARDING job awaits you.

Don’t stay in a cramped environment because of fear.

The world awaits you.

Stay because the relationship is healthy.

Stay because the job is rewarding.

Branch out because the world awaits you.

Time to stop making choices based upon what you fear.

Time to make choices based upon faith in your experience, in your learning, in your growth, in wise counsel.

You have the life you are putting in the effort for, beloveds. Simple as that. If you are not satisfied  with your life, make changes.

If you don’t like the changes, make more changes. Simple as that.

Come on, beloveds. We got thangs to do. We have ZERO time to be entertaining fear. Tell fear to kick rocks whenever and wherever it rears it’s lying head!

doing thangs free from fear,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: It’s okay to be afraid. Just not okay to allow fear to run our lives. The unknown is ONLY terrifying when you have to go it alone.

Isn’t it great, beloveds, to know we are loved and that we are NOT alone?!❤️‍🩹♥️🥰

Be encouraged. 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!