Category: Poetry

You got this.

You got this.

You can do this.

You can have this.

You shall overcome this.

You shall rejoice and be glad in this.

You will receive this.

You will experience this.

What is the this I speak of?

God knows and He’s not telling.

Get out there and find out all He has in store for you.

getting this with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You got this. Now go get it! Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

What are you waiting for?

What are you waiting for?

Who are you waiting for?

What are you hoping for?

When are you thinking of going?

How long before you allow yourself to get going?

What are you waiting for?

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Go, beloveds. You got thangs to do.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Uprooted: Overcoming me.

I am overcoming, beloved.

I am overcoming:

Me!

I am overcoming:

Fear.

Doubt.

Dread.

Scared.

Sad.

Mad.

Circumstances.

Situations.

Machinations.

Mechanics.

Mentals.

Incidentals.

Accidentals.

All things.

Everything.

I absolutely REFUSE to allow ANYTHING to cause bitterness or lack of faith to grow anywhere near me or inside me.

Nada.

Nope.

Not going to have it!!!!!

What has changed?

Me.

Me!

ME!!

As I have been forced to fight FOR me, because God has been so damned silent, I have learned to just try, to just keep it moving and let the rest take care of itself.

The bible says, in Isaiah 26:3 – YOU will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Which means to keep focusing on HIM. He shall keep us in perfect peace.

Now, for the non believers, I still pray perfect peace for you. We all fam, eh?

We are not alone.

We are loved.

How can we NOT be uplifted?

I am overcoming me. I’m sure this shall be the case for the rest of my days. No matter. I got time. I think…lol.

Be encouraged. Keep overcoming you. Don’t let you be the reason things don’t happen in your life. Try. Live. Love. Hope. Rejoice. Do. The rest SHALL come out in the wash.

I know it’s discouraging not hearing or receiving the way we think we would have, should have or could have. I am doing my best to ask and then joyfully receive what is given. Period.

Sooooooooooooooo, beloveds, I hear a large cup of coffee calling. Who is joining me?

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: We are more than conquerors. Get to conquering!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Uprooted: Go anyway.

It’s time to go.

Somewhere.

Somehow.

Some kind of way.

My heart absolutely REFUSES to stay, in THIS spot, for one more second. Nope, she says it’s time to get out of here. She doesn’t know how. Frankly, she could care less.

My heart could care less about my 55 year old whining, complaining, what if it doesn’t work out self. Ha, my heart says. Let’s go.

So, I go.

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.

going even though I have NO idea where/what/when/how,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I am excited. I am anxious. I am ready, though. Life is short. I am taking a leap of faith. I am leaping, beloveds. For ME. Pray for me. Leap with me. For YOU. Asking for Your Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Repeat after me: I’m amazing.

Repeat after me:

I’m amazing.

I can do countless things.

I WILL continue to thrive in EVERY element.

I shall NOT give in to callousness, apathy or fear.

I shall TRY. My try SHALL be enough.

I KNOW I am enough. Already. Always.

I’m blessed.

I’m courageous. I keep going no matter how badly I may feel.

I am loving.

I am lovable.

I am altogether lovely.

Let’s go, me!

I got thangs to do!

doing thangs,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, um, so like you have me sooooooooooooooooo fired up, beloveds! What the heckamiah are we still doing here!? Let’s go! We got thangs to do!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Heart check Monday.

How is your heart doing?

Have you:

Gotten in your me time?

Taken a chance?

Taken a break?

Cut yourself some slack?

Worked on your dream?

Let someone in?

Kicked someone out?

Looked up?

Prayed?

Stayed?

If so, good on you. If not, what in the wide world are you waiting for?

Be the person you have been waiting for. Give the love you have been waiting for. Share the gifts you have been waiting to receive.

I am currently jamming to ‘She’s A Bad Mamma Jamma’. For, I AM a bad mamma jamma!

YYYYYYYAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

How’s your heart, beloveds?

Just checking on you.

Okay, enough talk. Time for us to be about being about it.

Be encouraged. Enjoy your Monday. ALL of it. Don’t be afraid of the beginning of the week. It’s a wonderful time to start all over the mess you made from last week, eh?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAAH!

chair dancing cuz life has got it going on like popcorn even when it’s hard,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You got this. As do I. Let’s rejoice, k? Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Uprooted: Fighting with(those)feelings again.

My feels are loud, right now.

My feels want to spill into/onto everything, right now.

My feels want me to feel everything in high definition, right now.

My feels want me to give up, right now.

My feels want me to run away somewhere and hide, right now.

My feels want to run amok and be as loud as they please without giving two damns about anyone hearing, right now.

My feels want to rage at The Universe for getting me in this uprooted mess, right now.

My feels want to just FFFFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL DAMMIT, right now.

Right now, however, I have told my feels to sit down and to breathe, for now.

Breathe.

Rest.

Reflect.

Rinse.

Repeat.

Being uprooted can be terrifying. Being uprooted HAS been terrifying. Yet, I have found great comfort as I have continued to reach out and show my broken/tender/wounded heart.

I have been loved.

I have found that I am NOT alone.

Ah, God. Thanks for remaining silent so my voice can rise within me.

Be encouraged, beloveds. Continue to reach out for support and love. Continue to be good to yourself as you find your footing, once again.

I am shaken, still.

Still, my hope remains steady.

I have NO idea what the rest of this day shall bring. I shall greet whatever comes with hope in my heart. Still.

I fought the night, all night. The night won. Night kept dawn in it’s clutches much longer than it should have. Finally, Day wrenched itself from Night and Reality’s cold grips and gave itself to me.

Day: Make something of me, beloved. Life is too short to waste.

Me: K.

I am doing my bestest, beloveds, to make something of THIS day. I am not looking beyond this cup of coffee. Speaking of which, come have a cup with me. Someone bring some Herbal tea for Craig. He says no milk please/thanks.

asking for a friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Hang in there, beloveds. Don’t let your struggles lie to you. You WILL be okay. As will I. I refuse to allow fear to enter ANY equation for me, right now. I have been fighting with NOT being anxious since the tornado.

Fear not, beloveds. Remain hopeful. The best is yet to come. It just doesn’t FEEL like it. Do NOT allow your feels to run your right now. Acknowledge them. Listen to them. Feel them. Deal with them. Then, send them on their way and continue walking underneath your umbrella of love, hope and joy. I go with you. In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He. Be encouraged…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Real talk: Go to sleep on it.🤬

I was mad.

Reeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllly mad.

Life made me a 🍋 meringue 🥧 and promptly smashed it in my face!

😳🤬😳🤬

I was mad.

Mad enough to do something incredibly short sighted.

Mad enough to do a permanent thing to cover a temporary happening. Yes, this happening was unfair. Yes, this temporary happening was NOT just.

Yet, it happened. What’s more, beloveds, God, Life  AND The Universe all waited, to see what I would DO.

I fussed a bit.

I fumed a lot.

I made ridiculous proclamations and protestations for a time.

Then, I stood on my FAITH.

Then, I rested on His Strength.

Then, I laughed with The Universe.

Then, I told life ha!

Then, I went to sleep.

Peacefully.

Joyfully.

Hopefully.

I worried NOT about tomorrow. I plan on having a FANTASTIC tomorrow.

Why?

I can do nothing about today’s happening. It happened. So what? I got thangs to do.

doing thangs,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Don’t let what happens to you make you into something you are not. It’s NOT what happens TO you but what you allow to happen IN you as you respond to said happenings.

Be encouraged.

Life is not often fair. So what? You got thangs to do. Get to doing those things.

I CAN say that today’s happening has helped me to choose me and steer me towards doing something I had been hesitating doing for no other reason than fear. Ha!

Let’s go!

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!

I am not strong: Life is an equal opportunity beatdown artist.

Life: 🥊 🥊!

Me: 🤡😱😡🍋❤️‍🩹🤗😳

Life: 🥊 🥊!

Me: Geeez.

Life: 🥊 🥊!

Me: ☕️🍩🙏🏋‍♀️🥊🥊👣❤️‍🩹❤️☕️📖🤐🙏🙏🎂

Life: Ow. I sowwy.

Don’t take it personal, beloveds. Life is an equal opportunity beatdown artist. Life doesn’t care how much you have, how old you are, how hard you work or try.

Life just does life. Period. We learn to roll with it, deal with it, LIVE within it, laugh in it, love in it, fight alongside it and fifty million other things.

I don’t know why life is not fair. You would think it should be. It’s not.

Life does not always or often, feels like, honor our dreams or our try.

God does. The Universe will. All we can do is to keep on keeping on. Life is not playing with me. I am NOT playing with life either!🥊🏋‍♀️🙏👣

I don’t know, beloveds. Perhaps God is allowing all this hard just so I can keep encouraging you and me.

I do know that I am going to keep using all this hard, all this what in the fresh hell is it now, along with all the unfair to keep uplifting others and myself.

This is all great faith practice. Anyone can claim faith when things are going well. The only way fait can be tested is for faith to be tested. Ow!

Be encouraged.

Keep going.

Keep growing.

Don’t allow the hard to steal your joy, your hope or your laughter.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged. Ah, God. We tired of these stupid 🍋!!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I am torn.

I am torn.

My heart wants to reach out and encourage folk to be encouraged.

Was handed a 🥣 of 🍋 this morning and am angry 😡 enough, STILL, to want to say “F- you!” to the damned Universe and I don’t like swearing.

😡😡😡😡!

Be encouraged, beloveds. Am just too angry/dismayed/disappointed to say more.

The Bible says be angry but sin not. So as NOT to sin, I am going to shut it and head to 🛏 early.

I am angry. I will have to rinse and repeat tomorrow the today I did NOT want to have to do.

🤬!

Keep going, beloveds. Even when you are angry enough to chew nails and pelt 🍋 at The Universe.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Someone enter some nice encouragement here for the rest of us. Asking for me.🤬😡😭😳🤯💔😥❤️‍🩹❤️

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!