Category: Music

Get up: Okay. Okay!

Dreams: Get up.

Me: Okay. Okay!

Beloveds, ask me WHY my dreams keep waking me up at 4:00 o’clock in the morning?!

All week. Every day. 4:00 o’clock in the morning. I don’t know if the universe is testing me or poking fun at me. either way, good Egads!

And every morning I have been forced to make a choice. I can go back to bed. Or I can work on my dreams. I choose to work on my dreams.

I have spent too much of my life choosing a former when it came to my dreams. Of course I would get up and rush to work and help pursue the dreams of others without question.

I am flipping the script. I am writing a new chapter. I am going to finish this book of mine. this dream of mine. I will. if I am the only one to read it this damn book is going to be written!

Get up. it’s time. You have things to do. You have dreams to fulfill. You have lives to impact. You have your own life to impact. Get up and go. Don’t wait.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: We are so much more than we have been given ourselves credit for. We have tried many, many, many, many things. Let’s try making our dreams come true, shall we? Take one step. Just one. Then take another.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Starting again hurts. Start anyway.

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😭

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*sigh*

I have spent the past two hours battling tears, frustration and doubt.

I have been trying, quite unsuccessfully, to figure out how to transfer work from my phone, to the computer, so I can continue.

ALL I have managed to produce is an empty coffee cup and an even emptier me.

In the background, inspirational music plays. In my heart, conflicting emotions rage.

Ah, God. WHY must this be so blasted hard all the blasted time?

It’s time to start again. Yikes.

I will keep going until I get there. Wherever there turns out to be.

hopeful,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Starting again hurts. Start anyway.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Filling the other half: Til You’re Home

I’m ready for my dreams to get home. I’m ready to walk with them in the daylight.

I’m ready to fulfill this dream and then start a new one!

In the meantime, beloveds, I dream of home. I will continue to walk towards my dream until I get home.

dreaming again,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: What are you dreaming of? As you dream, continue to move forward. We have things to do.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I fight for YOUR dreams today.

I’m fighting for YOUR dreams, beloveds. I have committed this day to yours.

My dreams seem just too heavy. So, I have set them down for the day. I told my try to rest. I got this. I’m going to give my try over to cheering on others today.

I was mad at my dreams last night. My dreams are NOT paying the bills. I need bills paid. I am doing my utmost to not allow desperation to overtake me and my dreams.

It’s okay to rest, beloveds. You just can’t quit. Not today. Not on the first of never. Not even on the second of we can do this later.

Go! Fight!!

Use your frustration to help you find another way. Make a new plan. Tweak the old one. Just keep doing SOMETHING.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You CAN. You WILL. Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Resignation, you shall NOT have my dreams!😡🎯

I am angry, beloveds.

With resignation. Almost, with me. I say almost because I ALMOST allowed resignation to have my dreams.

Disappointment was loud. Hope was being awfully timid. Patience stood by waiting on MY response.

God/Life/The Universe refused to get involved. This was MY fight. These were MY dreams. These dreams were mine to attend to, to fight for, to nurture, to champion, to relentlessly pursue.

Last night, I truly did seriously consider tossing my dreams aside. I told myself I would start looking for regular work on Monday. On Monday, beloveds, I was going to start living a life of quiet desperation.

To hell with that!!!😡🎯

I just stopped by to shake somebody. Dammit, we have quit on our dreams enough, already!

Enough!

Don’t you DARE give yourself permission to dismiss you and your dreams. They matter. You matter.

Flame out. Then, get back in the fight. I mean it. We have too blasted many thangs to do, beloveds. Our dreams may be wrapped up in each other’s dreams!

What if your dreams mixed up in mine? Your dreams are much too important for me to give up.

My words may hold your key. Your key may open my door. Ah, beloveds, keep going. Even when it’s especially hard right now.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: We CAN. We WILL. We have to. If you can’t have your dream today, go help someone else reach theirs.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Ah, God. Will I EVER.

Ah, God.

Ah, God!

Will I?

Will I EVER:

Make it?

Have it?

Do it?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I have been battling with frustration ALL morning.

Frustration is currently angry. I made it clean out the fridge and take out the garbage.

Later and lazy are smart enough to lay low.

I absolutely REFUSE to allow my feels to affect my try or my day.

I am making my day amazing. Frustrating learning and all.

I refuse to stop until I have learned something new. Good luck with that, doubt just said. I think I will make doubt vaccuum the floor when frustration returns from its trash run.

We will never know what we can do until we try to do something. Do something today.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

When disappointment lands its final blow, get up and try again.

When disappointment lands its final blow, get up and try again.

Periodt.

End of story.

Rinse.

Repeat.

I wanted to give up last night. I mean really give up!

I told myself “That’s it! I am TIRED of being disappointed!!”

I told myself I was NOT lifting another finger, when it came to my dreams.

I was done!

I was finished!

These damned dreams are much too disappointing!

They are too heavy!!

I felt like a clown.

I felt like an impossible imposter.

I STILL feel the fool.

My dreams woke my mad up this morning. Said we had thangs to do.

doing thangs,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I put my whole heart, beloveds, into something. I was rejected so much as ignored. Completely.

I feel like a fool.

I feel:

Old.

Unable.

Incapable.

Alone.

Rejected.

Ugly.

Fat.

I did NOT want to drag my ugly, fat, old, lonely, incapable soul out of bed this morning.

I didn’t. I brought along my capable, able, ready, resilient, amazing self and started my day.

Yesterday’s try is done. Today I shall see if I flame out more brilliantly than yesterday’s apparent face plant. I fight on. You do the same.

Keep going. Keep moving FORWARD. Keep looking UP. Don’t give up because the day’s results gave you an emphatic no. Tomorrow’s results may contain the yes you have been waiting for. You’ll never know it you allow your loud disappointment to cause you to quietly quit.

I will never again quiet quit on my dreams. That’s why I stormed in here so loudly. THIS is when I must be the loudest. I have finally answered the question I have been asking all my life:

When can I be loud?

When turned out to be today.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Filling the other half: Follow My Rainbow

I’m doing the best I can to follow my rainbow.

Are you?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: My dreams used to be heavy. They used to feel hopeless. Not anymore. They seem possible. I wonder if there is a pot of gold at the end of my rainbow. I’m going to do the best I can to find out.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Rise above.

Rise above your circumstances.

Stand on the shoulders of your difficulty.

Soar among the storm clouds.

Rise above your fears.

Stand on the shoulders of adversity.

Soar upon the fierce winds.

Rise above your small expectations.

Stand ten toes down.

Soar as high as you can.

Rise!

Stand!

Soar!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, um, how you are still here after THAT much inspiration is beyond me. I almost dived off the balcony on them words.🤗🤣🥰

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Don’t judge me.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Wow, was I just a big dummy just now….hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

I have been listening to some uplifting music videos, on the television, while also working on some pieces and looking at an uplifting video, by Myles Monroe, who was talking about how to receive God’s Promises and talking about prayer, on the laptop.

Anywho, he had said something super motivating and I wanted to replay what he said. Instead of reaching for the mouse I, ehem, ooops, reached for the television remote and grew frustrated pressing buttons to rewind the computer!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!

I was in the middle of a rant when it dawned on me to look at what I was holding in my hand. The TELEVISON remote, Cassandra!

Long story shorter, mouse in hand, I corrected things…lol.

I just stopped by to remind you to find the joy in your day. Even in the midst of doing dumb things! 🤣🥰

Hahahahahahahaha!

Be encouraged this day. You will make it to the other side of your current storm.

I love you. Be good to your amazing self. Love yourself. NOW. As you ARE. Change will come in due course.

I got your back in prayer.  Meet me in the comments would you please and thanks.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Aw, beloveds, find the joy. It’s there. Buried beneath your worry. Cast your cares upon He who loves you and cares for your life. As do I.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!