Category: hope

Make the adjustments already, Cassandra!

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I needed to move the television. An inch or so to the left. It was driving me cra cra!

I was too lazy. So, I spent forever arguing in my mind. Dummy me.

Finally, I couldn’t take it ONE MORE SECOND! MOVE THE STUPID TELEVISION ALREADY, CASSANDRA!!

Whew! Perfection. Shoulda done that weeks ago. I could have spared myself weeks of annoyance and strained viewing. Smh.

We can get like that right, beloveds?

God/Life/The Universe will prompt us to course correct and we use all manner of excuses not to.

Even small corrections. We like our things the way we like our things. Even things which we KNOW could stand a bit of adjustment here and there.

I am learning to make the adjustments as quickly as I can. It’s not always easy. It has NOT been fun.

I have cried. I have raged. I have pouted. I am adjusting, though.

I stopped ’round to encourage you to keep on making those adjustments. Pout as you need to. But, keep moving those things a bit to the left or right…lol.

adjusting darnit!,


Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep doing what it takes to grow/go. You got this. I love you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You are more than you give yourself credit for.

Give yourself the credit you deserve.

You are:

Magnificent!

Spectacular!

Crucial!

Lift up your head, beloveds. You are NOT an imposter. You are stupendous. You don’t have to be on the outside looking in.

Open the door. Take your seat. Engage with life.

In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He.

You are so much more than you give yourself credit for.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Never forget that you are worthy, you are worth it, and you are sooooooo worthwhile.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Work smarter, not dumber, er, harder(tired).

I am having to spend this morning organizing things I organized while tired. Smh.

I look at this tired mess and can only shake my head.

At the time, beloveds, I told myself to just “hurry up and get it DONE, Cassandra!”.

And, yea, God did suggest I rest and take care of things when I could think straight. And, of course, I knew better. Dummy me.

I just stopped by to stop someone from doing the foolish thing of working themselves into the ground.

We serve NO purpose when we have overextended.  Everyone loses. We end up having to redo or rebrand or…

You get my point.

Take stock.

Take a breath.

Then, and only then, beloveds, take action. Action, for action’ sake is counterproductive.

Life is short. Get in your rest.

Work smarter, not dumber, er, harder(tired).

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Take care of YOU. You are much too important to dismiss. Have an amazing day today.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Filling the other half:You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)

Ah, beloveds, I am daydreaming. I am calling in a bit of love.

If you have a love, swoop them up and swoon with them to this.

If you are not looking for a significant other, swoon towards the dream you are wooing and seeking!

Take a break from your hard and dream. Ah, God. Help us get there. Where ever our there may be drawing us towards!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Let your heart do a bit of daydreaming today…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Let greatness be your new normal.

Everything changes. Everything!

Given this is so, beloveds, let greatness be your new normal.

Let greatness set your path.

Allow greatness to take you places you have never gone.

There is no reason you can’t. You can. Use April to usher in your best self, your best life.

I’m looking forward to what life has in store for me. Are you?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep working hard. You can do this. You can!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I will NEVER forget the morning when God whispered to my heart “You are not your pain”. Never.

Even now, I can go back to that moment: I was on my way to work. I was sitting at the stoplight. Tears had been streaming down my face.

I was worried. We had moved and I now had a 30 minute commute I could not afford the gas for.

I hated, hated, hated driving in the early morning hours. The roads were skinny, hilly, curvy and super nerve wracking.

I hated the scary roads. Yet, I enjoyed blasting my praise music and singing at the tops of my long.

Anywho, I was at that light in tears. I didn’t know what to do. I needed gas money. I needed to complete that scary ride.

I felt like one huge ball of pain.

“You are NOT your pain”.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

True story.

LOL.

This actually made me laugh out loud.

Have a fabulous day today.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: 🤣🤣🤣

Beloveds, please don’t stay focused on all the foolishness happening right now. There is plenty of good. Enjoy some good. Be some good to someone. Laugh.

Do something for no other reason than it felt good to bless someone. Life is short. Live. Please and thanks.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You are the miracle you have been looking for!

You are the miracle you have been looking for!

Get out there and live.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

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One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Make it work for your good.

I couldn’t sleep.

I tried everything.

My dreams just did NOT want me to go to bed. They wanted to continue to play in broad daylight!

My dreams were basking in the sunlight upon their face. I enjoyed dancing within their embrace.

When I was working, beloveds, I always lamented about not being able to work when I wanted.

My creativity is most alive in the midnight hours. I love writing in the dead of night. To me, it feels like I am the only one up in the entire world. Me and God yakking. God and me carrying on about any and everything.

I especially love writing, listening to music, praying for folk, daydreaming between the hours of two and four. Ask me why, I still don’t know.

I tend to wind down around 6 or 7 am. Then, ALL I wanted to do was to go to sleep.

The only problem with that was I had to get up and work my PAYING job.😳😴

It was exhausting. It felt like I was up 24/7. Unsustainable.

Before I lost my job, beloveds, I grew more and more restless. What I wanted to do did NOT pay the bills.

What paid the bills was no longer satisfying. Yikes! Egads! Fresh hell.

I prayed and prayed and prayed for a way out.

Silence.

The tornado came.

Loudly.

I find myself rebuilding my financial bricks. With no straw. 😳🙏😫🌊

I am doing my utmost to use what I have. What I have doesn’t seem to be ⚒ working. Not for me, at least.

I’m trying.

The tornado has given me the time to write when I want. So, now I get up at odd hours. I work at weird times. I do breakfast things at the dinner hour. Fantastic!

I hate the tornado happened. The happening, just so happened to have delivered me the opportunity to work when I want. What I have ALWAYS wanted but was too fearful to try.

I chose stability over uncertainty. What good did that do me? I’m smack dab in the middle of the uncertainty I had run from my whole life.😳

Now, I am using what I have.

Use what you have. Do what you can with what you know.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You are more than what you are going through!

There is more to this life than your struggles.

There is more to this life than just what you can see.

There is more to you than you give yourself credit for!

It can be easy to feel as though we are nothing more than the painful things we go through.

These times pass. Until they do, hang in there!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You got this.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I am not afraid.

Fear not, beloveds.

No matter what. No matter why. You SHALL make it.

All shall be well.

Keep moving FORWARD.

Keep looking UP.

We got this. Take no heed of the darkness. Turn on the light. Be a light.

We CAN.

We WILL.

I have been saying these things for five years. I have been fighting back the darkness for the past two.

I have wrestled with a live tornado that tore up my city, tore down my confidence and tore up my illusion that true disaster could/would never shake me as badly as it did.

Still, I am here. Still. Thriving. Jobless. Hopeful. Joyful. Expectant. Resilient.

Keep being about being about it EVERY day.

I love you. As does He.asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

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One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!