Category: Inspiration

I’m going to make it!

Nuff said.

So will you!

Keep going.

going with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: The year has started. It feels like I have not started with it. I am ready to be doing new things but find myself doing the same things, still. Still! Crap. Ack!!

I keep asking The Universe to help me figure out the HOW so I can do the WHAT so I can BE!!!!

Egads!

Yikes!

Until then, I continue to strive, grow, cry, fuss, fume, laugh, rejoice, do, be, LIVE, love and laugh. Then, I rinse and repeat.

doing until,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: If this piece feels unfinished, well, it’s because I am discombobulated and feeling unfinished. Ack. I feel alive, though. I feel free, though. I feel love, though. Though, I am not yet there, I am still…here!

Ah.

Aha!

Enjpoy your HERE, beloveds, whilst you are waiting to get to your THERE. I am learning to enjoy myself in the meantime. It’s not easy. In fact, there are days when I want to tell The Universe to kick rocks and leave me alone and let me just livinga boring life where I am NOT forever hopeful and optimistic and believing. Let m be like many who are half alive who….the heck with that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Live, beloveds. Yes, it hurts when dreams keep laughing at us. Live, anyway. Tell your dreams you SHALL wrestle them down and enjoy them.

Be encrouraged. You got this. God and The Universe has us all. Love someone. Starting with you. Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Today has been a good day.🤗

Today has been a good day.🤗

Nuff said.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Took today just to rest. That’s it. No being about being about it. No fighting 🐯 and wrestling 🤼‍♀️ with 🐻. Nope. Nada. Nuttin. Just resting.

It’s important to give yourself a good no me not about to do nuffin type of day. Write weirdly. Make something stupid. Be silly. There is always time to do the serious.

Be encouraged and remember you are loved and you are not alone. Keep on being you.

Stop bugging me, God!:Stay open to The Universe.

Yikes!

Egads!

Every since I had to have drywall fixed, under the sink, I have been having to fight with bugs.

Yikes!

Egads!!!!!!!!!

I hate bugs!!!!!!

Almost daily, it seems, I find myself hooting and hollering, raging at The Universe, fighting with my Thanos sized can of bug spray, whilst attempting to finger snap these dumb things out of existance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It also feels as if God and The Universe keeps bugging me by revealing past issues and unresolved issues/feels that have been preventing me from moving forward.

EEEEEEGGGGGGGGGAAAAADDDDDS!!!

I now find myself hooting and hollering, raging at The Universe, at God, at this, at that, at me, at you, at Life, at work, at me again, at Life again, at….whew….rinse….repeat, at…

You get my point.

Still, in the midst of all the raging and hooting and hollering, I find myself:

Growing.

Going.

Believing.

Receiving.

Acknowledging.

Feeling…

Feeling?

Hmmm.

Ah!

Aha!

I used to squash my feelings into some drawer that I would get to ‘later’. Later never came. So, I found myself a ball of unresolved what the world is this feels. I am thankful that God and The Universe keeps on bugging me to continue to heal and to grow.

I am looking forward to my future. I am enjoying my present. I am embracing all this hard. I have asked, though, for God and The Universe to teach me some lessons on a beach whilst feeding me grapes!

Be encouraged, beloveds. Don’t give up yet. Not just yet. I find myself on an encouragement kick. I need it. Now, more than ever. I feel the days running away. How many do I have, God? Universe?

I want to see what it FEELS like to be living my dream outloud. Ah, God. Won’t You come down and hang with me as I wait for You to…*shrug*. Just come kick it with me.

waiting patiently kinda/sorta,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged. Keep going. You got thangs to do. Enjoy you in the meantime. We only get one go around.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Use what you have: You can do it.

I ran out of trash bags.

Again.

I forgot to order trash bags.

Again.

Crapola.

So, now I have to use left over delivery bags. Yea, I know, they are smaill and ugly.

So what?

They are suiting my NEED.

Oftentimes, folks tend to want to dress up things. They want to run around in flash because they feel like a bit of less than, deep inside.

I used to feel that way.

Deep inside, where no one else could see, hear, or no. Yet, I KNEW. I hid. From, me. From, God. From, Life. I gave my all, inside secretly feeling as if my all was ugly, like a little delivery bag that was no good for anything but carrying just a bit of this and that.

Over time, a LOT of time, and healing, and healing, and healing, and time, and time, and a whole lotta aggravation, I have come to learn that I am more than enough. My life. My thoughts. My heart. My this. My that. My all that makes me….ME.

I.

Am.

Enough.

How great is that?

I, me, Cassandra, whodathunkit?!

It seems as if we spend a lifetime, chasing after validation. Does he love me? Does she think about me? Does the job respect me? Did mom love me? Does dad care for me?

On and on and on we ask for love everywhere but where we need to start: Within!

If we can’t love ourselves, how the world can we expect to be able to RECEIVE or feel love from anyone else? Answer: We can’t!!

Know, beloveds, KNOW:

You are enough.

Period.

End of story.

Continue to rewrite and reimagine your life. WE frame what we see.WE perceive events that happen to and for us. WE can change things, change our perceptions, whenever WE choose.

We are NOT helpless and hapless victims of circumstances.

Use what you have.

Create new things out of old things.

Keep on keeping on.

We got this.

We ain’t done yet, beloveds. We got thangs to do!

doing thangs with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToYou

Note: It’s imperative to remain focused when your feels get all feely on you. Else, you will be believing lies and foolishness that it’s over for you and your dreams. Ha!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

It is well.

It is well.

It IS well.

It is WELL!

I was all up in my feels, beloveds. I was soooooooooooooo busy fretting about where I thought I wasn’t that I could not enjoy where I currently was.

I was/am:

Safe.

Present.

Loved.

Cherished.

Hopeful.

Helped.

Not alone.

Free.

Capable. 

Able.

Strong.

Steady.

Steadfast.

Joyful.

Resourceful.

Resilient.

It is well.

It is!

We can do this thing called life.

We can.

We will.

We are:

Loved.

Not alone.

We shall:

Keep on being…US!

believing,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep going…

Fear, you have a problem.

Fear, you have a problem.

Fear, I am a problem.

Fear, I am YOUR problem.

I plan on botherin’ you, fear.

I plan on defeating you, fear.

I plan on pestering you, fear.

On the daily, fear.

ALL day, fear.

Day in and day out, fear.

Yea, fear, you most definitely have a problem…

ME!

bring a problem for fear,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Sometimes, beloveds, you have GOT to put fear in its place. Sometimes, you have GOT to put fear into its proper perspective. Sometimes, you have GOT to let fear know who runs your show. Fear, you do NOT run me!

Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU!

Turn it into something good.

Frustration woke me up this morning.

I was tired.

I was hungry.

I was too tired to fix something to eat or make coffee.

I started work tired, hungry and coffee-less!…*gasp*.

I faked it til I made it.

I called my sis and told her I was tired. Said I did NOT want to go another year THIS way. Yet, I could not even say what THIS even was…

Dissatisfaction?

Frustration?

Whattheworldisthisness?

I knew not.

Talking helped. In times past, I would have ‘sucked it up’ and kept my feels, to myself. I would have been supportive and loved on folk, all the while being tore up from the floor up.

I don’t do that anymore. Now, I share. Now, I do the best I can to encourage folk when I am THE most discouraged. Why? I figure if I could be so down, when having so much and KNOWING, how are other folks feeling who don’t yet KNOW they are loved and not alone?

So, I drag my feels with me in encouraging folk to hang in there. Things really WILL be alright, beloveds. Until they are though:

Have faith.

Be encouraged.

Talk to someone.

Write.

Read.

Pray.

Sing.

Take a walk.

Take out the trash.

Wash the dishes.

Do the laundry.

In short, keep on living. Life is good. Even when it’s hard. Turn your not so hot, into something good.

You CAN.

You WILL.

So shall I.

making chocolate chip cookies from lemons,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, really? Get out there and LIVE. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I have had my sad. Now, I shall enjoy the rest of my day. Don’t let sad or any other feels keep you from embracing and enjoying your moments. We got this.

You are loved and not alone.

Dreams: Take the next step, God said to me.

God: Take the next step.

Me: I can’t.

God: Take the next step.

Me: I’m tired.

God: Take the next step.

Me: I don’t know how.

God: Take the NEXT step. Just the one. You don’t have to know or worry about the steps thereafter.

Me: I don’t know what my life will look like. I have no idea where I will end up. I have NO clue who I will be.

God: Just be. Take the next step, beloved.

Me: I am tired.

God: I shall take the next step for you. Come here…

*God scoops up Cassandra and slings her across his back. With a whoop and a laugh, God raced through the puddles, as the rain continued to stream down.*

taking the next step,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I was tired. Did NOT want to work today. Work is sooooooooooooooooooooooo worky! Endless! Everyone needing everything. For a time, my feels had me all up in my feelings. Woe is me blared from my heart. My spirit, being annoyed, told my feels to shut up already and get about being about it! I got about being about it.

Be encouraged, beloveds. You shall. You will. The way just seems hard, right now. Okay, it may yet well be hard but enjoy the journey. We woke. Some did not. We moved. Some could/can not. We rejoiced. Some choose not.

Live. Laugh. Love. Starting with you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

😴

What a day.

What a ddddddddaaaaay.

What a…😴

🛏,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Work was work. Whew! The first month of the year is the busiest. It’s like life crams 6 month of work into one month. Yikes!😳

Enjoy your days. Even the especially busy ones. I have just enough energy to check on folk and to remind all that they are loved and not alone. Keep on being you.

Don’t let the upside down turn you around.

Well now.

My days are upside down. Due to system issues, STILL, I am battling through my days and have not had the chance to get my pieces done and posted by 6:30 am…*shrug*

In times past, I would have been hooting anx hollering over the unfairness of life and all the nonsense going on round here!

Ack!

Whew!

Instead, I am simply writing NOW. There is no sense in lamenting about the hard. We just have to keep working with it, around it or within it. Simple as that.

I have also learned not to allow work frustrations to bleed into the whole of my day. I have another aggravating hour to fight through but plan on enjoying the rest of my evening.

Keep going, beloveds. Laugh at hard and tell it thanks for helping to shape you into the victorious champion you are!

You got this.

God has you.

How much more blessed can you and I be?

Be encouraged.

praying for all who are aggravated and or tired,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Take care of your wonderful heart, would you? Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU