Note: Have an amazing week. It is taking everything within me to maintain my joy. between the storms and vertigo life has not been funny. I have had to change how I do things. I work as long as I can, because there are days when I just can’t work. in the past, I would have driven me up ten walls. I have learned and I’m still learning to work with what I have. 56 is teaching me many a lesson. 56 goes to bed when she wants to and doesn’t care if it’s in the middle of the afternoon!
Have an amazing rest of your day. Be sure to get your me time in there. Make sure to cut yourself some slack. Remember, you’re doing the best that you can. That’s all you can ask of yourself.
I was hungry. I wanted bacon and eggs. I placed an order.
My order was a few minutes away. I looked at what I did have and realized I could have most of my meal prepared and make the bacon when it came. I didn’t have to wait till the bacon came to start preparing my meal.
I did just that. I had things timed perfectly. In just a bit, I was happily munching on a feast. This had me thinking about my life and all that I can do while I’m waiting for my dreams to show up and show out.
You don’t have to wait for this to happen before you do some things. Use what you have. Take advantage of your now. This is the only time that we get. Let’s make the best of it.
The storms just won’t stop. That’s okay because I am dancing in the rain.
Don’t let these storms of life keep you down, beloveds. Keep dancing in the rain.
Stomp in the puddles. Make a mess. Laugh. Have some fun. Remember, the sun is going to shine after these storms.
We got this. Don’t fear the thunder. It’s just noise.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: You got this. So do I. Enjoy this day. These storms have been relentless. They just won’t end. I’m doing my best to stay positive. What else can I do? There’s a time for everything that happens under the sun. Summer will be here soon. I’m doing my best to stay in the present and enjoy today. I hope you are doing the thing.
Now that you have all the nos out of the way, how about chasing down the yes?!
Yes, I will try it
Yes, I will do it.
Yes, I can.
Life is how we choose. Say yes. Don’t allow your options to be one of apathy. We have millions of choices every day. Not making a choice is a choice. What are you saying yes to today? What are you saying no to?
Choose those things that will bring your dreams closer to fruition. Make today fantastic.
Are you pursuing your dreams? Are you looking out for you? Are you making new friends? Are you trying new things?
Are you chasing down those things that set your heart on fire? Are you star gazing? Are you daydreaming?
Are you failing spectacularly? Are you trying new recipes? Are you reaching out to old friends? Are you making amends?
Life is short. Whatcha doin with the life that you have?
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Life is short. Get to living it. You do NOT have to forever be surviving life. Egads, that gets old. Embrace your now. Stop worrying about a tomorrow that has not arrived! Let’s go!! We got thangs to do.
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?!
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.
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