God: I love you. Nuff said.
Me: 🥰❤️🩹♥️
loved,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: God loves you. As do I. Be encouraged.
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Category: Inspiration
It’s okay to say ‘Ow’.
It’s okay to say “Ow’.
It’s okay to say ‘Why now?’
It’s okay to ask ‘What now?’
Ow, God!
Why NOW?
WHAT now?!
Whew.
Nuff said.
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Sometimes, beloveds, doing what needs to be done hurts. It can be cumbersome. It can be unwieldy. It can be nasty. It can be heavy. It can be lonely. It can be frustrating. It can, and often is, all kinds of things we wish it were not.
Keep going anyway. He didn’t tell us to keep going only when things are comfortable. He didn’t say keep going only when we understood. He didn’t say keep going only when we feel like it. He asks us to keep going. Why? Because, we have thangs to do. Best we get to it, eh, beloveds?
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!
Help me be loud:
You won’t know you can until you have to.
Today required a lot of patience.
Too bad I had none.
Nada.
Zilch.
Not even a smidge.
I had to keep going, though.
No choice.
I HAD to.
I had no idea how it’s gonna get through the work day.
I had to find a way.
I found a way.
Don’t ask me how.
I just did it.
I didn’t think I could.
I did.
I told myself I would try.
I tried.
I did.
You won’t know you can until you have to.
Be encouraged.
rooting for you,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: You have NO idea of the depths of you. Don’t stop until you reach the finish line.
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Help me be loud:
Stay the course: Can I be honest, God?
Me: Can I be honest?
God: Yes.
Me: I mean REEEEEAAAAAAAALLLLLY promise I won’t get to hell for being honest, honest?
God: Yes.
Me: I’m having a hard time with hard. I’m having a realllly hard time waiting for YOU. I know You promised to be with me during hard but You have been awfully quiet. Your Silence is awfully loud, God. Just saying.
God: I understand.
Me: Do You? It doesn’t FEEL like it. It doesn’t LOOK like it. I am simply living by MY faith in YOU.
God: Exactly. Wait for it, beloved.
Me: Ah. Aha!
God: When I am the most silent, your heart speaks the loudest.
Me: I know! I can’t get her to….hhm. I think I see what You mean! I am forever trying to control how my heart needs to be acting or doing. I need to trust her more and just let her BE. Me. I’m afraid to be me.
God: Why?
Me: Because, my me is soooooooooooooooo, well, ME. I can’t find another 55 year old who does this life like I do.
God: Okay, beloved, there is only one you. This was by design.
Me: Why does my design feel sooooooooo inadequate?
God: Inadequate to whom, beloved?
Me: Ah. Aha!
God: Exactly. Keep going. Even when you don’t understand. Especially when you don’t understand. I am here. I keep My Promises. Will you keep YOURS?
Me: I will.
God: That’s all I ask.
Me: K.
Can I be honest, beloveds? It has been terribly difficult to stay the course. My age, my lack of resources, my this, my that and every other thing is laughing all up in my face.
Today, I had to drag myself out of bed. I called my twin. Told her I did NOT know HOW I would do work. today. She told me to do work today.
I told her I did NOT know HOW I would be able to keep on keeping on. She told me to keep on keeping on.
I told myself God told me His Grace was sufficient for me. Whew! Grace where ARE you?!!
I got up.
I started work.
I started enjoying work.
Be encouraged, beloveds. If you are in a terribly difficult spot, get to rejoicing! Your victory IS at hand. If not, fear/doubt and all their friends would not be on such a rampage to get YOU to give up on YOU and your dreams.
Hold fast, beloveds. Oftentimes, your dreams are not being held up because of anything you have done or not done. Your dreams, at times, are being held up because God is doing work in and for someone else.
Now, I don’t know why this hard has had to be THIS hard. I just know hard ain’t nothing but a tool we use to keep us sharp, focused and fresh.
Be encouraged. Don’t let anything keep your joy. Turn on some music. Step out into some fresh air. Get on up, beloveds. We got thangs to do.
Encourage someone. Life is tough for us all. We got this. God has us all. In case no one has told you today: I love me some you. So does He.
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Okay, so the whole piece was a note. Geeeeeeeeeez.
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Help me be loud:
Heart check.
Here I go again.
Checking on you.
How is your heart today?
Tell the truth.
How are you REALLY doing?
Folks never asked how people are doing anymore. How sad. We all need to do better checking on each other.
Speaking of which, how’s your heart doing?
Reach out for some love if your heart is empty. I know where you can find Plenty!
In case no one has told you today: I love you.
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: ❤️🩹♥️🥰
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Help me be loud:
Repeat after me: Unbreakable.
Repeat after me:
I am unbreakable.
I am undeterred.
I am immovable.
I am immensely capable.
I am able.
Now get out there, beloveds, and happen to your day!
STOP allowing yourself to be stopped!
What in the fresh hell are you still doing here?!
Get going. Life is short. You got thangs to do!
You CAN.
You WILL.
You MUST.
getting after it with you,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Get on out there and try. Something. Some kind of way. Your way. So what if it does not work at first. Try again. And, again. Rinse. Repeat.
Beloveds, I may never make my dreams come true. Best believe it will NOT be because I quit or walked away. Ha! Nevada! Eva!
How looooooooooooong will you wait, beloveds? Get to making that podcast! Get to writing that book! Start that blog! Write that song! Try for THAT job! Ask her out! Buy him a cup of coffee! Asking for A Friend. ❤️🩹♥️
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Help me be loud:
God said.
God: I’m not moving for you right now.
Me: I’m not moving from You ever.
Me: Why won’t You move for ME right now?
God: Why won’t you move even though I haven’t?
Me: Because I believe in YOU.
God: I have not moved, in your finances, because I believe in YOU.
Me: What does this mean?
God: Aha! Great question! Keep asking, beloved.
Me: Ah. Aha!
pondering,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Sometimes, obstacles are meant to stay in our way. For a looooooooooooooooooooooong time.
Why?
Beats me. I just know them darn things can stay in the way for a looooooooooooooooooooooog time.
The obstacles, beloveds, are besides the point. The point is:
Will you or won’t you?
Period.
Will you:
Have faith?
Keep going?
Do what’s needed because it is needed?
Whether you gain from doing the deed.
Whether you lose from doing the deed.
WILL you do the deed if asked?
Or, won’t you?
Either way, be honest with you. Sometimes, the doing is just too hard, in your opinion. This is understood. You CAN do the thing, though. How do I know? Because He said you could/would.
It’s a trust thing. You trusting YOU. He trusts you. How about stepping out, in FAITH, so you can see what HE sees in you? Asking for A Friend.
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Help me be loud:
God knows.
God knows why.
God knows how.
God knows when.
Nuff said.
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Be encouraged. It’s okay to question. It’s okay to not understand. Be encouraged, beloveds. Hold fast and do NOT give in to despair. In case no one has told you today: I love you.
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Help me be loud:
What brings you joy?
What brings you joy?
It’s important to KNOW.
Writing brings me joy.
Encouraging folk brings me joy.
Coffee brings me joy.
A good yak with fam and friends brings me joy.
Fried chicken brings me joy.
Working hard brings me joy.
NFL brings me joy.
Reading brings me joy.
Jesus IS My Joy.
Yakking with God brings me joy.
Preparing meals brings me joy.
Doritoes brings me joy.
Sharing these moments with you, beloveds, brings me joy.
What brings you joy?
asking for A Friend,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Today was super hard. A Friend told me to get up and eat as that may help. It did. It felt good puttering around and scrambling eggs. The sound of frying ham steak…ah!
Keep being good to you as you go through your hard. Remain joyful. Remember all you have to be thankful for. Beginning with me.🤗😆❤️🩹🥰❤️
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
Help me be loud:
Good news: You already have what you need.
Good news, beloveds.You already have what you need.
What is that, you ask?
Great question!!
Keep asking.
believing in you,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: You are fixing to embark upon a fantastic journey. Keep asking…
One step.
One step.
One step.
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
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