I’m ready to move forward. I just don’t know which direction to face.
Do I go left? Do I turn right? Do I yield? Do I stop and wait?
Ack.
EVERYTHING in me wants to MOVE. My heart wants to go somewhere. She always has. I have been afraid of her. She is afraid of nothing. She is ready to do whatever it takes.
I don’t want to disappoint her. I want to make her proud.
I’m ready to move…FORWARD. I have no idea what’s up ahead. I’m ready to find out.
Are you? It’s time for us to move in 2025. Let’s go, beloveds. We got thangs to do.
How can you rest when working, working and working some more is all you have ever known?
Being one of 13, us older kids had to babysit and half raise those under us. There wasn’t much room for rest.
Then, having to work to help out the family left precious little time for resting or foolishness like daydreaming or fulfilling ridiculous flights of fancy.
My heart longs to give in to those flights of fancy. The adult in me admonishes me to get back to work. God is silent. Purposely so. Ack!!
What do I DO, beloveds, when everything in me needs the rest but I don’t know how to put the rest down?
My mind goes to shoulds and needtos. My heart says rest. My spirit says work it out as it is tired of being in the middle.
The silence holds wonders if I am courageous enough to be still. If I can be silent. If I can rest.
I find myself restless. What do I DO? The answer appears to be do nothing. Geeeez.
Learning how to do nothing when you’re used to doing so much something is really something!
I must say I really will be glad when this period ends. I’m doing my best to hang on as best as I can. I don’t feel like hanging on today. Yet I will. I have to. So do you.
I have been doing a bit of organizing. I think I will give myself permission to watch some old movies and munch on popcorn. Who wants to join me?
In the mean time, while waiting for a life to change, get some rest.
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: What have you been longing to do? Start doing some of those things.
Folk have been on Tik Tok and other mediums crying since the president of the United States rescinded the 1965 Civil Rights Act, along with gutting other programs and freezing federal jobs.
As a woman, a black woman, these measures are devastating, in reality, and not just in the abstract.
That being said, beloveds, I absolutely REFUSE to take up a mantle of fear, anger and hopelessness.
I CHOOSE to continue to shine my light.
I CHOOSE to continue to encourage ALL of my brothers and sisters to keep looking UP, to keep moving FORWARD, to keep loving one another. Even folk who don’t look like you or me. Especially love them.
Ah, beloveds, these times are up to US. We are NOT helpless. We are NOT hopeless.
If you are a TRUE Christian, you know that God is STILL on the throne. HE will be about being about business.
If you are not, your life STILL has an impact. If you live in America, WE make up the USA. WE, each of us, are more than a vote. We have a voice. We can act. We can choose. We can live. We can love. We can fight for one another.
To that end I say “be encouraged”. This life is short. Focus on those things that matter. Do what you can. Love as many folk as you can.
One thing we are NOT going to do, beloveds, is to give up hope. Faith WILL see us through these times.
Things are happening. All over the world. We all must make the choice of how WE are going to conduct ourselves and our business.
As for me and mine, I choose YOU. I choose to pray for you. I choose to rejoice with you. I choose to love you. I choose to root for you. I choose…
We SHALL overcome. Until then, we fight on.
Be encouraged. Get rid of the social media that is doing NOTHING but pumping poison in your spirit. Stick to that which uplifts your soul. Like me, eh?
I had to fight with discouragement again today. I told it to shut up and go back to the hell from whence it came.
Then, I rose. Then, I made coffee. Then, I hopped on here to send some love to someone in need.
What are YOU going to do?
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: We got this. Everything will be alright. It will….
NOTHING, electronically, wants to work today. I have wanted to scream, in 😤 frustration. I have made the choice not to.
I made myself:
Make a cup of ☕ coffee.
Turn on some uplifting music.
Encourage someone.
After a tune, a sip, a tap of the foot to the tunes, I found my humor again.
Life is much too short to be wasted pouting over temporary delays.
Do NOT allow temporary 😤 frustrations to keep you from having a fantastic day. I shall be saying extra prayers for us all. Make 2025 spectacular. Starting with today.
In my ability to build an amazing future for myself and others.
In God.
In a good cup of coffee.
In the bible.
In a good chick flick.
In a good laugh to rescue a trying day.
In chair dancing.
In daydreaming.
In giving.
In loving.
In laughing.
In living.
In telling a joke so bad even aspirins walk away shaking their heads.
In a nice bowl of chili.
In non crime scene brownies.
In family.
In friends.
In you.
In me.
What do you believe in, beloveds?
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Keep on believing. It’s good to remember GOOD things. So often, we tend to focus on what we have lost, what we could lose, what may never come to pass.
I say we use 2025 filling up the other half of the glass! Let’s go!
I have been watching football for more than 30 years.
I have been astonished to witness several players quit on their team. During the game. After a loss. After the ball was not thrown to them enough.
How sad. Folk have forgotten what teamwork means. Society has forgotten what integrity and supporting one another means.
Folk have been supposedly ” quiet quitting” their jobs. This apparently means folk are giving little to no effort.
Phooey on that! If you don’t care for things going on with your job, TALK to someone. Work it out. If you can’t, find another and give your all.
If you don’t get the ball thrown your way, so what?! Block. Run the route. Your route running STILL affects the outcome of the play!
Don’t pick up your toys and run if you were not chosen to lead the way. Enjoy the camaraderie of the team. Make memories.
In 2025, let’s all choose to get in there and be a light.
Okay, mini rant over…lol.
I have wanted to quit many a day. Life just seemed too damnedably hard. I learned how to push through the hard. I leaned into the hard. I strengthened faith muscles fighting against the hard.
There’s more to this life than we know. Don’t quit. Hang in there a little while longer.
Have you ever considered the reason you have been placed on the sideline, was to help someone standing there? Perhaps it was meant to give you the rest you would never give yourself.
Rest. Then, get about being about it. There just ain’t no quit in us!
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