Note: Love one another. None of us know what folk are going through. Get to know someone who doesn’t look or act like you.
Remember, beloveds, you are much more than your political beliefs, you are more than the groups you align with.
You are more than your job. You are more than your wallet. You are more than your efforts.
You are enough just being YOU. Yes, do. Yes, care. Yet, KNOW, of a certainty, you do NOT have to pay rent to The Universe. Meaning, you don’t have to give to be loved. You are loved already. You are seen already. You are heard already.
I am praying for us all today. I say extra prayers for those who have lost faith, never had faith or who have walked away from faith. Be encouraged.
Note: You have greatness within you, beloveds. Get out there and BE great. Your light IS making a difference. You can be THE difference if you will but make yourself available. Be encouraged.
In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He.
I feel sorry for the neighbors. Currently, I am loudly and lustily singing “Nobody Loves Me Like You Do” by Anne Murray…((((((((((((((hugs self))))))))))
I have my trusty blue screwdriver in hand. My favorite microphone. I am singing at Carnegie Hall. Usually, I sing this song to Jesus. I love Him. I like to sing love songs at times. I also sing love songs to myself. This may seem strange to you, but it’s a way in reminder to love myself always. It’s a reminder that I don’t need to wait for someone to tell me that I am loved. I speak words of affirmation to myself. Out loud.
Sing a concert to yourself beloveds. You’re so worth loving. You’re worth a concert. In the mean time I shall sing love songs to each and every one of you. I shall pray for you. I shall send warm thoughts of love, hope, joy and peace your way. I shall ask The Universe to bless your every step.
When you walk into a room beloveds, The Universe looks upon you with wonder and awe. What an amazing person you are!
Walk confidently. Dream big. Be relentless. Challenge yourself to do more and to be more. Enlarge your tent. Make room in your garden for new things to grow.
See your comfort zone as the coffin it really is. Get out there and live. Use what you have. Don’t be ashamed of what you have. You were given those things for a reason. You are born where you are born for a reason. You are in the circumstances you are in for a reason.
Be sure to love you some you today. Sing yourself a love song. Make yourself a meal. Take yourself for a walk. Tell yourself a joke and be good to you today.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: There is only one you. Treat you with kindness.
I have spent a delicious day encouraging as many folk as I could wrap my arms around, via words.
My lonely has been feeling awful lonely lately. The more healing I have gotten, the more my heart longs to love the entirety of the whole wide world.
As we speak, I am singing love songs to myself. My heart is so full it can barely contain all of the joy within it. I wish mom were here, in the flesh, for me to hug and laugh with. I shall do so in my dreams. Awoke, I have spent the day blabbing with her incessantly about this, that and absolutely everything.
Ah, God, bless EVERY heart. Comfort all who are mourning lost loved ones. Be much with them this day. Help folk to find there way. Let all know they are loved and that they are NOT alone. Especially, God, reveal Yourself as One who loves, One who cares, One who is there. There are many who are feeling a smidge lonely. I’m feeling my sad tonight. I think I shall sit with sad and see what she has to say to me as these hours fade into the newness of 2025.
In the meantime, I just stopped ’round to check on your heart.
Be encouraged. I love you.
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Be encouraged. Two words that soothes the soul. This has been a tough year for so many. The toughest year I have had. And, I have had some super tough years. Yet, I am thankful for ALL the hard. The hard keeps polishing this diamond called ME!
Move FORWARD, beloveds. Nothing we can do about the happenings of 2024. They have happened. Now, ALL we can do is make some fantastic mishmash from ALL that has befallen us.
I thank each and every person who have stopped by and sent a like a time or two. Those likes tend to be a balm to the soul at unexpectedly needed times. I thank EVERY soul who has stopped around silently. Know I pray for you on the daily. You are all so much more to me than a name, a like, a follow and the like. I truly do spend countless hours wondering how each and every one of you are doing. It has been a true blessing to have been able to be a bit of encouragement. Ah, beloveds, I hope I have been. You have been a light for me through many a dark day.
Life is good. Even when it is hard. Even when it’s hard to know what to believe, let alone who or Whom to believe in. I promise to do my best to keep keeping my promises to myself. One being to encourage you EVERY day. If I read my notifications right, I am up to 443 days straight of encouraging someone to hang in there. I used to wonder how the world folk wrote EVERY day. Now, I have built up such a good writing habit, good habits won’t allow me to miss one day without letting someone know they are loved.
Have an amazing rest of the evening and rest of your life. I shall do the same.
I promised myself I would get some kind of motivational something or other started BEFORE 2025.
Hours later, and I mean hoooooooooouuuurrrrrrrrrs, beloveds, I have my FIRST partial, not very fantastic but what I have almost sorta kinda but not really figured out. It’s tastefully kind of cute in a weird she has NO idea what she is doing kind of way.
If you would like to laugh at me, er, support my FIRST effort, click on the link above. Hopefully, fingers crossed, it will open and you shall hear my old, never going to have nothing in life and no one will love you anyway voice…lol.
Be encouraged. Go for your dreams. My dreams are going to have to catch me. I have run ahead into tomorrow!
How about you?
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Have an amazing 2025. It’s not quite ten and I am about ten minutes from heading to bed. I am long past the age of waiting for midnight. 2025 will be there, hopefully, when I wake up.
I have spent a delicious day praying for each and every one of you. I have asked for some serious blessings to come your way. Until they arrive, LIVE, beloveds. Enjoy the life that you have. You are much farther than you think.
KNOW, of a surety, that you are loved and that you are NOT alone. You are more than what you do, what you have or where/how you live. Your life was worth the death of The King.
Walk confidently into each of your days. Determine this was the LAST day you are going to stand on fear/doubt and all the other naysaying emotions meant to keep you from pursuing all the things that sets your very soul on fire.
Be sure to get some me time in there, somewhere. Take joy with you EVERY where you go. If you found the courage to look at my first attempt, maybe you will make a first attempt at/towards a dream that appears to be much toooooooooooooooooooooooo large for you to fulfill/have/produce.
You got this. God has us all. He even has ALL the unbelievers. How fantastic is that??!
Okay, soooooooooooooo, it may or may not be kinda sorta accidentally true that…ehem…
Joke based on an unfortunately true story:
Question: What do you call Chocolate Pudding that was made with entirely toooooooooooooo much 🥛 milk?
Answer: Chocolate shake!…*annoyed pout*.
Don’t judge me, beloveds. At least, I am still trying…
Why, Cassandra? Why, oooooooooo good heavens, WWHHHHYYYY do you keep inflicting these food crimes upon the land?!
Well…hhhmm….
While I figure out why, I stopped by to encourage you to keep making your own food crimes, er, mistakes.
I used to hate, hate, hhaaaaatttteee to make mistakes. Making mistakes made me feel as though I were the mistake. My mistake…lol.
Mistakes are how we learn. Making mistakes and learning from them helps us to grow.
So I ended up making Chocolate Shake instead of Chocolate Pudding?! So what? It was absolutely delicious.
Find the joy in your mistakes, beloveds. Have fun trying new things. 😂 Laugh at the blunder. Learn. Keep it moving. Rinse. Repeat.
Have a glorious day creating your 🔮 future! What you do today is contributing towards your future. This can be a good or not so good thing. Be sure your contributions are POSITIVE, filled with integrity, laced with love, and full of joy.
There is a small possibility that I may have perchance kinda sorta may have committed a small food crime, once again.
I wanted to make some chocolate pudding.
I know. I know. I told myself I would follow directions this time. I maybe, perhaps, didn’t quite follow directions again.
The Box said to add three cups of cold water along with the package of chocolate pudding mix. I found a half cup. Guess how many of those I used?! You guessed it. I used three. which meant I only put in one and a half cups of milk.
Instead of making putting, I ended up making chocolate paste!
I have been enjoying my food experiments. I am wondering what other food catastrophe I can make this week…
I stopped by to check on you. Hopefully, I’ve given you a laugh today. Don’t let this day in without you getting in a few more laughs. Reach out to someone. Encourage someone today. I love someone today starting with you.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: This piece made me laugh. I hope it made you smile. Life is much too short to be spending all day fretting and worrying. We are heading into a new year. Be sure to take optimism with you into next year. Dream big. Remain joyful. Remain faithful to your dreams. Begin again as many times as you need to. Be good to you.
As we head into the new year, we must leave our worries behind. It’s time for us to trust ourselves. It’s time for us to trust the gift that lies within us. It’s time for us to begin again. We have things to do.
Let’s take this time to get ready and prepare for the greatest ahead. There is so much in store for us. We just have to be ready for it. This is our time. Let’s make the most of it, shall we?
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: It’s high time you trusted yourself. He had been trusting everything and everyone but yourself. Cut yourself some slack. Believe in the gifts that are within you. You were put on this earth for a reason. Find out what that reason is. If you know, act on a reason. If you don’t continue to ask what that reason is. Then, be the reason!
Your hard time is not meant just for you, beloveds.
Your hard time is here, in part, so you can leave a bit of a treat for someone else as you make your way through your hard or dark place.
I have learned so many things through this hard time. I’m trying my best to give away as many tools and lessons that I’ve learned along the way.
I have learned how important it is to reach out to others for support. I’ve learned that if you don’t have a support system to create one!
I have learned to ask for help. Loudly!
I have learned to love out loud. Lustily!
I have learned to laugh through my tears.
I have learned to be content with nothing..
I have learned how to lose friends with grace.
I have learned how to love me when I have been at my most unlovable.
I am still learning all these painful lessons every day. I am grateful for the hard. The hard is helping me keep on my toes.
Your hard time is not just for you. Your hard time helps you create your story. Share your hard. Let someone else know that they can make it. You might as well make your hard work something!
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: It helps to share hard with others. It helps them. It helps you. We all need each other. Be encouraged today. Be sure to get some joy out of your day. Do the best you can, not to focus on the hard. That can be hard..lol. I crack myself up.
It feels like all I have been doing is fighting lately. Trying to keep a positive attitude. Fighting with lazy. Duking it out with fear.
I have been fighting my way out of bed. I have been fighting through emotions. I have been fighting with everything and everyone to keep my dreams intact.
Fighting so hard is exhausting. I almost wanna say, forget about it and walk away. I can’t. My dreams mean too much to me. I want to see what they look like. Fulfilled!
I shall keep fighting. How about you? Keep giving it everything you have. We shall win in the end.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: I wanted to quit many times. I refuse to quit. the battle is one or lost in the mind. I tell myself to keep going. I tell myself to be encouraged. I tell myself to keep standing on faith and not fear. I keep telling myself the truth. I can and I will. So will you.
