Category: Hobbies

You have been set apart. You have NOT been set aside.

Good morning, beloveds. And, it IS a GOOD morning!

I just stopped ’round to speak life to those who have been feeling like they have been dismissed and/or not counted. This is not so.

You have been set apart. You have NOT been set aside. There is a difference.

I used to feel like an outsider. I used to feel like I was on the outside of life looking in at others enjoying their lives.

I felt like a kid with their face pressed against a glass. which was separating them from some wonderful goodies..

I no longer feel that way. now I’m just waiting my turn. I may be asked to take the stage. In the meantime, I’m going to have a good time being a stagehand and helping out where I can. I will help someone else. I will be in the audience for someone else. I will give them a standing ovation for their try.

And if I never get called to the stage, I will still be grateful. I will be thankful I was part of the show in any capacity. I don’t have to be the spotlight. I don’t have to be in the spotlight. I will happily hold the life for someone else.

I love writing. I love encouraging people. I love praying for people. I no longer worry about if others are receiving my words and my care. I send them anyway. My joy is in the writing My joy is in trying to connect. My joy is in the try. The rest is merely icing on the cake.

Life has not discarded you. You have been set aside for this time. This is your time. Take the stage. Build a stage. Clean the stage. Just do something. Just be available. Life will come calling. How shall you answer?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: If you are feeling discarded about now, get ready. Life is fixing to open up to you. You have not been forgotten. You are just bring prepared. Enjoy the respite. Enjoy your day.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I forgot to be sad.

I was so focused on loving folk.

I forgot to be sad.

I was so intent on sharing my heart.

I forgot to be mad.

I was so determined to love the whole damned world.

I remembered why I was glad.

Life is short. Love someone. Starting with you.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life brings all kinds of things with. It doesn’t HAVE to be sad. What are you DOING with what life has wrought you today?…lol.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You have the power.

https://www.capcut.com/view/7463264174555578885?workspaceId=7454145451684708358

I’m trying to NOT throw my laptop out the nearest window.

I have spent a frustrating evening trying to teach myself CapCut and Canva. All I have managed to do was make myself want to cut up on some Canva!!!

Alas, I had to tell my feels to quit acting a fool long enough for me to tell you to be encouraged.

We got this. In the meantime, beloveds, click on the link above and be encouraged. Let me know what you think in the comments. Please/thanks. How else will I learn unless I can use yall as my helpless victims, er, helpers as I do my best to BE a light?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

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


One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Don’t allow lazy to keep you lazy in 2025.

I wanted to be lazy this morning. I told myself it was okay to sleep in.

I drug lazy out of bed in mid sentence!

I have been going to bed earlier so I can get up early and get about getting about it.

Lazy has NOT been down for this plan. Lazy so desperately wants to BE lazy. Not on my watch! Ha!

Lazy is currently complaining about washing dishes…lol.

Be sure you are not the reason your dreams are not coming true, beloveds. Wake up. Get up. Make it happen for your life.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: January is almost over. Are you squeezing out the best in every moment? You still have time. Get to it. Get a move on. We have things to do.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

When haters try to give you their love, show them the door.🚪

When haters try to give you their love, show them the door.🚪

Nuff said. Stop wasting your life on what clowns have to say.

We have much toooooooooooo much to do, beloveds. Don’t waste a second of 2025 on the haters. They have nothing better to do because they have nothing to do. We got thangs to do, remember?

doing thangs with you,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: There will ALWAYS be folk who will tell you what you can never have, where you can and can not go, what you can or can not do. Let them talk. You are much too busy to listen.

Above all, beloveds, don’t EVER add your voice to those of the naysayers. We are often our biggest critics, aren’t we?

Champion yourself. Celebrate your try. Don’t worry about the outcome. Enjoy playing in the game. Salute the winner. Even if it’s not you!

We only get this ONE life. LIVE. I love me some you. Am sure some may wonder why I tell complete strangers that I love them. You are NOT strangers to me. You are my brothers. You are my sisters. I love you. So does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I’m changing the narrative.

Someone is forever trying to write my story. They are forever trying to choose the hero and the villain.

They tell me where I can not go. They let me know what things I will never accomplish.

I’m changing the narrative. I’m choosing to be the one to tell my own story. that no longer allow fear or anger or doubt to tell my story for me. I no longer allow my finances or my age or my race or my gender to tell my story. These things are but characters for me to use at my discretion.

I decide who gets on stage. I decide who gets to speak and when. I get to determine the path of my story. I can change the story anytime I choose to. I can begin a new tale. Or I can revamp the one I am currently telling. It’s up to me.

I have been enjoying the NFL playoffs. It has been really sad how some players are being talked about. Some are being called heroes. Others are being called goats and not in a good way. The word failure has been tossed about liberally.

It makes me sad the way the world now views people’s efforts. Folk are viewed as failures or successes. The try is of no consequence. The effort appears to be of no consequence.

I’m praying that we can all get back to caring about one another and embracing each other’s try. I’m tired of this cancer culture which wants to throw out someone because of mistakes. What happened to empathy, compassion and understanding? None of us are perfect. We all are doing the best we know how.

You can change your narrative. You don’t have to accept the narrative that is being placed upon your life. Speak life over your circumstances. Speak joy over your situations. Tell the naysayers to shut up.

Be sure to encourage one another. and to encourage them to change their narrative if they need to. We got this. I really do believe that people are good at heart. They’re just too many people who are giving into false narratives, into divisive rhetorics, and to chasing clicks and being part of clickbait. I choose not to be one of those.

I’m not trying to be an influencer. I’m just choosing to use my influence for good. However, much influence I have, I choose to use that to love the world as best as I can. Speaking of which, I love you.

Have an amazing day. Make 2025 amazing.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: What are you telling yourself about your dreams? Make sure you are watering your dreams with positivity. Leave the hate to the haters. You have much too much to do. Be encouraged. You should have the things you’re striving for. You may also receive much more than you had initially hoped for. You’ll never know unless you try. Get going. The day grows short.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

For such a time as this.

We have been chosen.

For such a time as this.

We have been called.

For such a time as this.

We have been challenged.

For such a time as this.

Life is what WE make it. Let’s make it a good one in our corner of the world.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Spread some love today. Spread some joy today. Spread some hope today. Be the awesome wonder that you are.

Beloveds, if you are reading these words, The Universe is calling you. What shall your answer be? Help me spread some love. Share this piece with at least one person, eh

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Move.

I’m ready.

I’m ready to move forward. I just don’t know which direction to face.

Do I go left? Do I turn right? Do I yield? Do I stop and wait?

Ack.

EVERYTHING in me wants to MOVE. My heart wants to go somewhere. She always has. I have been afraid of her. She is afraid of nothing. She is ready to do whatever it takes.

I don’t want to disappoint her. I want to make her proud.

I’m ready to move…FORWARD. I have no idea what’s up ahead. I’m ready to find out.

Are you? It’s time for us to move in 2025. Let’s go, beloveds. We got thangs to do.

Move. FORWARD.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Let’s gooooooooo!!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Give it a rest, beloveds.

I’m having a hard time.

A hard time resting.

A hard time giving myself PERMISSION to rest.

How can you rest when working, working and working some more is all you have ever known?

Being one of 13, us older kids had to babysit and half raise those under us. There wasn’t much room for rest.

Then, having to work to help out the family left precious little time for resting or foolishness like daydreaming or fulfilling ridiculous flights of fancy.

My heart longs to give in to those flights of fancy. The adult in me admonishes me to get back to work. God is silent. Purposely so. Ack!!

What do I DO, beloveds, when everything in me needs the rest but I don’t know how to put the rest down?

My mind goes to shoulds and needtos. My heart says rest. My spirit says work it out as it is tired of being in the middle.

The silence holds wonders if I am courageous enough to be still. If I can be silent. If I can rest.

I find myself restless. What do I DO? The answer appears to be do nothing. Geeeez.

Learning how to do nothing when you’re used to doing so much something is really something!

I must say I really will be glad when this period ends. I’m doing my best to hang on as best as I can. I don’t feel like hanging on today. Yet I will. I have to. So do you.

I have been doing a bit of organizing. I think I will give myself permission to watch some old movies and munch on popcorn. Who wants to join me?

In the mean time, while waiting for a life to change, get some rest.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: What have you been longing to do? Start doing some of those things.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I have questions.

I have questions:

Can I?

Should I?

Will they?

Will He?

Won’t they?

What if…?

Ah, beloveds, questions have rousted me out of fitful dreams. I have so many of them now.

Can’t I?

Would they?

Do they?

How can it?

Do you know? If so, let me know. 2024 left so much loss. 2025 beckons. It winks. It whispers there is much joy to be found there.

Ah, beloveds, what if I can’t?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep going. Take your questions with you! We have much too much to do to sit here wondering…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!