Category: Inspiration

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Feeling poorly. Again! Debated calling in sick. Again!

Calculated bills. Again!

Ack!

Hmm.

Soooooooooo, beloveds, I PROMISED I would be good to me so told bills to shut up and called out. Paid bills, to get them out of the way, and fixing to scramble some eggs 🥚 and get back in bed.

Be good to YOU, beloveds. Too often, we run ourselves ragged for job and family. It’s imperative that we consider ourselves, as well.

I was raised to NOT consider my health, my wealth, or my feelings. We had no choice. We had to work and care for our siblings and mom, who had been super ill most of my life. She did what she could but her health kept her from being financially able to do much. Plus, she had to raise 13 kids. Egads.

Anywho, folk of color were and are raised to suck it up! No time for:

Tears.

Fears.

Dreams.

We had to work. We had to strive. WE HAD TO!

There was no time for day dreams. No time to meander or rest. NO TIME!

So, we grew up:

Tired.

Stressed.

Angry.

Angry from being ALWAYS tired and stressed. We weren’t and aren’t, angry people. Just angry over the constant hard that had no business being so damned hard just because of being born a person of color in a world who cared not for folk of color.

I love the world, still. Ignorance makes fools of us all.

Keep loving folk, beloveds. Folk are often the product of their environment and choices. Folk are often following what their family has done.

Life is short. Keep being good to you. I shall do the same. Am feeling so poorly I am not sure if I have made sense.

Be encouraged. Do something special for your heart as it is precious. Someone remember to turn off the lights and pass out some love and hugs.

Take care.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life is good. Even when it’s hard. Embrace your day. Don’t let a frustrating moment ruin your whole day. Acknowledge your feels and keep on with your day. Look up at the sky. What a wonderful gift this planet 🌏 is for us. Breathe deeply. Many never got the chance to take a breath today.

Remember to cut yourself more slack. You are doing the best you can. Sheesh. Why are you soooooooooooo hard on you? Stop that!🥰

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

🤒 Be good to you.

🤒. Sick appears to have snuck up on me…

Hhm.

I calculated pushing through. The 🚽 said it didn’t think 🤔 that wise.

Comforter sided with hot/cold who are currently arguing with bod temp for supremecy.

I told them all to go away and told bills to shut up as I am going to be good to me today.

Be good to you, beloveds. Some days, it is 🧣 necessary to look after your interests and not your interest, if you know what I am saying.

Life is short. Let folk know what you need. Be encouraged. Love someone. Starting with you.

Somebody pass out a good note 🗒 for the day. Oh, yea, here:

🥰

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU

One lap is enough.

My health is not the greatest at the moment. I have not been able to walk every day. I have not been able to resume my daily task with the gusto I normally do.

I told myself to get out of bed and take out the trash. I told myself to walk just a bit. Even if it was only one lap. I walked.

I could only complete one lap. In the past, this would have been a source of deep discouragement.

Now I rejoiced as one lab would turn into two next time and then three and then four.The point was not the amount. The point was the try.

Keep trying. Even if you can only manage a lap.

One step.

One step.

One step.

walking/trying the best I can,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life is a series of steps. Get a move on…

Who do you choose to be?

Who do you choose to be?

WHO do you choose to be?

Who do you CHOOSE to be?

Don’t let the world choose for you. Don’t let others choose for you. Don’t let circumstances choose for you.

I choose to be a person who believes in people and think the best of my fellow man. I choose to believe that life is worth living. I choose to believe that God has my best interest at heart.

I choose to keep trying even things are hard. I choose to hold myself accountable. I choose to keep my act right acting right.

I choose to be a person that can be counted upon. I choose to be a person who strives for excellence always.

I am not perfect. I will not always live up to those standards. The standards I have chosen.

I can live with that. Our lives are a collection of our choices.

Who do you choose to be? Society is at an inflection point. More people are choosing to give in to their baser instincts. More folk are choosing the low road. It’s disheartening. It’s discouraging.

All I can do is to keep shouting into the void. All I can do is to keep praying. All I can do is all I can do. I pray it will be enough. I will be okay with whatever the outcome will be.

Be encouraged. Don’t believe the height that all is lost. We only lose when we give up on one another and stop trying. Is allergy trying even if I try alone.

Take care of your life because it is precious. You are an amazing soul. Keep trying. Keep moving forward. Ever forward. Don’t be discouraged if it looks like things are never going to change your move. They will as they are supposed to.

choosing to love even the most foolish and awful acting among us,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: The bible tells us to love one another. I know it’s hard to love foe who are acting like idiots. I know it’s hard to love folk who are acting hateful and mean. I know it’s hard to love those who appear not to care about anything but themselves. I know it’s hard to care about folks who could care less. Love them anyway. Those are the one who needs love the most.

Yes, we need to hold one another accountable. Yet, we can hold local carnival and still love them. This world is a mess because no one wants to take accountability and people are afraid to hold one another accountable.

Things will be okay, beloveds. They will. As we love. As we do. As we move. As we try. As we tell apathy, division and hell to go back to the hell in which they were born from!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU

Welcome your future.

Welcome your future.

Say goodbye to your past.

Embrace here today.

Look forward to your tomorrow.

It is so easy to allow ourselves the negative side of life. The future is unknown and it is easy to see boogie men in every corner and closet.

I am fifty five. I come from a generation that was always saying be careful about this. Don’t do that. Don’t go there. Don’t speak out. Don’t speak up. Keep your head down.

I was raised to live my life Siri. And what could happen or what would happen or what should happen or what should happen or what should not happen.

Parents mean well. I don’t blame my parents. I am just giving context.

I am learning to live my life based upon joy and love and perseverance and effort and faith, and so many other things that will move my life forward.

I welcome my future now. I don’t dread my feature. I don’t run from my future. I don’t dismiss my future.

I am doing my best to be a light. I offer my care and concern and prayer and love. I hope those things are accepted. I understand when they are not. I am okay with that. I can live with that.

I appreciate every like in every comment. I appreciate everyone who decides not to like or comment or read or care.

I thank each and every one of you for bringing joy to my heart and my life. I think of you everyday. I laugh about stupid pieces I think to write for you. I think of serious things that may encourage you. I hope for you. I root for you.

This is going to be an outstanding season for us all. Let’s keep doing thangs.

doing thangs with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, so the whole piece was a note! Get out there and love somebody. Starting with you. I love you care about your life.

Tell somebody that they are loved. They need to hear it. Don’t say you don’t have somebody because you have me. You can tell me.😳♥️😆🗝

Real talk: Fear, you do NOT run me!

Fear, you do NOT run me! https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1fVb0nOis8/?igsh=MWc2eDdqMnZ6eWthYg==

Afternoon, beloveds. I have been rooting fear from my life. From, everywhere.

I told fear to 📦 pack and to…

GO!!

From, everywhere.

I look around, now, and see where I had limited ME, because of choices made or NOT made BECAUSE of fear.

Yea, I packaged it up in other things like I was waiting on God, or this is not the right time, or this person won’t understand me.

Yada.

Yada.

Nada!

I was lying.

To, myself.

Secretly.

No more.

Nope.

Nada.

Not!

Ah.

Aha!

I CHOOSE.

Simple as that.

Doing that is not always comfortable. Conflict can appear conflicting. So what? We got thangs to do.

I look forward to the coming year. I rejoice TODAY.

living without fear,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Have an awesome rest of your Saturday. I have a mini chocolate cream pie hollering my name. Come for a slice and bring the 🍵 ☕.

Disappointment was God’s Greatest Gift to me.

I can’t remember being disappointed so many times, in so many different ways, in all of my life. Golly gee willikers!

Yet, with each disappointment, I have found, too my surprise, each has caused me to want to give more, be more, try harder, do more to affect change. In, my life. In, the lives of others. For, my community. For, my family. For, those who consider my dark skin, to be an enemy.

Yes, the disappointment(s) hurt. Terribly. Still, each has caused me to be, well, still. Still. Quiet. As, I sit on the disappointment. I sigh. I cry. Then, something, deep inside, whispers to try. Again. Again. Again. Which makes me, laugh. Which makes me, want to try, again. Again. Then, still again.

Ah.

Aha!

This is what LIVING, feels like!

Financially, I have had more setbacks, then I can count. It’s a good thing. I don’t have much to count!….hahahahahahahahaha! I refuse to allow my finances, as currently constructed, to deconstruct my joy.

If I could sum up this past year it will have been filled mostly with one word:

Disappointment!

I can truly say that I am grateful. For, the hard. For, the disappointment.

Why?

Because, each disappointment was an appointment to:

Choose.

Try.

Feel.

Accept.

Receive.

Fight.

Strive.

Hope.

Despair.

Rejoice.

Rinse.

Repeat.

Until.

Until…

I learn, still.

I grow, still.

I learn to grow still, so I can learn to grow…still.

Ah.

Aha!

I welcome disappointment now. As it introduces me, continually, to a wonderful soul. Me!

I thank God, for giving me the greatest gift.

Don’t despair, beloveds, when disappointment shows at every turn. It shows you are out there living and trying.

Be encouraged. Let this coming year be amazing. It’s up to you. Own your choices. Choose. Admit your mistakes. Keep your act right acting right.

If you have lived and given your all, be okay with this. Tell your critics thanks and keep it moving.

moving with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

I see you.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I say these words to someone EVERY day. I say them to myself EVERY day. Why? Because we ARE! Nuff said. Be encouraged…

Believe it or not.

Believe it or not, your dreams ARE within your grasp.

Believe it or not, you SHALL be successful if you only keep moving forward.

Believe it or not, your best days ARE in front of you.

Believe it or not, The Universe is rooting for you and ready to assist you.

Believe it or not, life is going to continue to happen, whether you engage with life or not.

Believe it or not, there are tons of folk who would love to love and get to know you.

Believe it or not, it’s up to YOU.

Believe.

Or, not.

Be encouraged. Believe in yourself. Believe you have everything you need, within you, to live a prosperous life. Prosperity is much more than finances. Abundance is much more than money. Being rich is much more that what you own.

Believe.

believing with/for you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: The battle is won, in the mind. BEFORE, the battle starts. Be sure to win, BEFORE you win! Get on out there and LIVE, beloveds. Time to stop surviving life, just barely. Life does not have to be one endless battle. Yes, we have trials and tests and races and skirmishes to get to and through. But, life is meant to be embraced/enjoyed/shared.

Enjoy your weekend. Love someone. Start with you. I love you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You decide.

Win or lose?

You decide.

YOU decide.

You DECIDE!

Love or hate?

Empathy or apathy?

Faith or unbelief?

YOU DECIDE!

Choose.

There are NO victims, beloveds. Only those who have DECIDED to not decide. Even this, IS a choice.

Here lately, I have seen more and more channels, podcasts, blogs, etc, who appear to have chosen to peddle in hate, division, crude, rude, and all of their friends.

As for me and my house, I choose to love, uplift, and encourage.

I love you, beloveds. I pray great blessings and joy over your life. I ask for protection from all that would harm you. Be encouraged.

choosing love,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep being a light…

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU