Category: faith

What are you willing to sacrifice?

What are you willing to sacrifice?

What are you willing to give up?

What are you willing to try?

What are you willing to forego?

What are you willing to believe?

What are you willing to believe in?

Are you willing:

To sacrifice your pride, to save a relationship?

To give up a convenience, to help someone achieve their goal?

To try something new, knowing you may look like a fool for the wide world to see?

To forego your comfort, to help someone else find safety?

To trust in things you can not see?

To trust someone/Someone?

We sacrifice things every day. We sacrifice our time. We sacrifice our money. We sacrifice our reputation. We sacrifice our integrity. We sacrifice our truth. We sacrifice our faith.

What are we sacrificing these sacred things to/for?

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: 🤔🥰

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Uprooted: Hold on tight.

I’m holding on for dear life.

To my dreams.

To my sanity.

To my hopes.

I’m trying my hardest to let go of my fear(s).

I’m trying to leave my doubts behind.

They chase me. Relentlessly.

Still, I try.

Hold on, beloveds.

Hang onto your faith. Let go of your fear.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: We got this

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Turn off your history: Stop reliving your mistakes.

YouTube has gotten on my last nerves!

They have changed the algorithm, which has changed which videos come up.

Also, I have an eclectic taste, so enjoy a myriad of topics. Inevitably, I found a million videos of nothing but the same subjects! Drove me mad!

Finally, I decided to turn off the history so other things could have the chance to be viewed. Now, all kinds of things show up on my feed.

That has me thinking how we are so used to keeping old memories, forever qued up, forever playing over and over and over, in our minds.

I have turned off my heart’s history. 😄❤️‍🩹♥️

I have wiped the slate clean. I am trying to do things a different way. I am doing my best to listen more. REALLY listening.

In doing so, beloveds, life is so much more enjoyable. Living in the present. Enjoying the day for the present it is. Not expecting this or that, based upon what happened in the past.

Life is soooooooooo much easier when you stop beating yourself up for what was. It happened. So what. Move on.

Turn off your history. Allow yourself the opportunity to view new things. Enlarge your tent. Get out of your comfort zone.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You are not your past. Your past does NOT have to determine your future. YOU do that! So do that…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

My dreams are crying.

My dreams are crying.

Inside I’m dying.

To break free.

Free from these chains of fear and doubt that are forever holding on to me.

My dreams are crying out.

Shouting so loud they are drowning out everything else.

I don’t know how to quiet them.

My dreams are crying. Who hears them? Who hears me?

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I wish I could ignore these dreams of mine. It would make my life so much easier right now. I could go back to complaining about why things were not working, instead of trying to make them work. I could go back to blaming The Universe for not making my dream come true.

My dreams are holding me accountable. My dreams are forcing me to own my choices. My dreams are demanding that I make choices. My dreams are forcing me to choose. I have no one else to blame. Ack.

Okay, dreams. I will try. That’s all I can promise you. That’s all I can promise me.

What do you promise you? What do you say to your dreams?

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Look beyond the hard.

This has been a hard year.

I’m learning how to look beyond the hard.

It’s not always easy when hard is sooooooooooooooooooo damned hard!

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZ!

Life becomes so much easier when we learn how to look beyond the hard. Hard will always be hard. No getting around that fact. fact is, beloveds, I have been finding more of me beyond the hard. perhaps, this is The Universe’ whole point.

Look beyond the hard. There is just no telling what you will see behind there. I think I see some joy over there. I believe I hear some peace over there. I could have sworn I saw my dreams over there!

Let’s go. We got things to do.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Get going. You have dreams to fulfill!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

My one day may be today.

I woke up hopeful.

I woke up hoping.

I woke up hoping for my dreams to come true.

Maybe one day.

My one day may be today.

Who knows?

I have no idea. Which is why I wake up hopeful.

My one day may yet well be today.

I shall wait patiently to see what shall befall me today.

Ah God. My one day may be today. Is it?

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Hang in there, beloveds. Your one day, may be today! Keep pressing forward. Although your steps may seem slow, keep going. Give yourself credit for the steps you are taking. Don’t worry about how many steps are left to come. Enjoy the journey. Eery step. Enjoy the people you meet on the way. Love as many as you can. This life is so short. It’s much shorter than any of us realize.

We never know when the last time really is the last time. Embrace this time. Even the hard parts. You can do this. You will do this. 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!

This does not always have to equal that.

Life is complicated. So much so that it can be hard to understand.

I used to judge life based upon outcomes. If THIS happens, it must mean THAT will follow.

If he says THIS, then THAT must be true.

If she does THIS, surely THAT will come to pass.

The more I live, beloveds, the more I have found that this does not always have to equal that.

I am learning not to judge life by it’s outcomes.

Just because a tornado swooped in, taking half the town away, does NOT mean all my dreams were taken with it.

Just because my job ended, because I was not yet ready to return, does not mean I am a failure.

Just because, the folk who I thought would stand with me, left me during my greatest need, does not mean I am unworthy of love and support.

Those things happened. Life happened. Life is often not fair.

That said, this does not always have to equal that

This world wants us to believe EVERYTHING and EVERY relationship has to be transactional. What’s more, we are told to focus on our wants and needs. To get what WE want. Sure, we can do for others, so long as it is convenient for US.

I choose not to live that way. I choose to love simply for the sake of loving. Yea, I long to be loved in return. I no longer base my worth upon who chooses to love me. Or not.

I am doing my best to love folk as God loves me: Unconditionally. Warts and all.

I hate election cycles. It’s a time where one political side sows division. It’s where half the country are told folk, who look like me, are lazy, unpatriotic, trying to take the jobs of folk who don’t look like me, and on and on.

I REFUSE to hate those who don’t look like me. It saddens me the hateful names folk are saying about them that look like me…*sigh*.

I CHOOSE to love and pray for them, still. I am sad for a world who is stupidly fighting over baubles, trinkets, homes, lands, and money instead of fighting for one another.

This does not always have to equal that, beloveds.  We can all be better. We can all DO better. We can all open our mouths and hearts to beat back the darkness.

Let’s love one another. Speaking of which: I love you. So does He.

Be encouraged.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Love someone. Starting with you. Asking for A Friend. ❤️‍🩹♥️🥰🛑

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Don’t turn away. Face it.

Don’t turn away from your fear(s). Face it.

Don’t turn away from doing what’s right. Face it.

Don’t turn away from your hopes/doubts for your future. Face it.

Nothing is certain in this life. Don’t waste time trying to hold onto certainty. Just because things happened one way, today. Doesn’t mean tomorrow will duplicate yesterday’s outcome.

Don’t turn away, beloveds, from the things that challenge you. Face them.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Any coward can run away and hide. Face it. Face YOU. You can do it.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Real talk: No going back!

Real talk…*sigh*….

I find myself missing the:

Comfortable.

Familiar.

Known.

We all talk a big game, don’t we, when it comes to wanting growth and change?

We talk a whoooooole lotta crap about wanting to do whatever is needed to grow.

Then, at first sign of the unknown, we cry like big babies:

“It’s dark!”

“I can’t see!”

“I don’t know them!”

“I don’t know if I can trust this!”

“Are You sure?!”

We want change. Easily. Handed to us on a silver platter. No pain involved.

Ah, pain. It sure has been a pain in the uh oh.

Instead of racing back to the familiar, I strain forward.

It’s dark.

I can’t see.

I trust You.

trusting even when I can’t see,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep moving forward, beloveds. Don’t let the unknown chase you back into the shadows. Stay in the light. You got this.

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!

Make a decision.

Make a decision.

To love.

Make a decision.

To try.

Make a decision.

To care.

Then, get on out there and love!

Get on out there and try!

Get on out there and care!

Nuff said.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Um, you are supposed to be out there loving, trying and caring. Get going!❤️‍🩹♥️🥰🎤

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!