Category: Song

Keep getting up.

Keep getting up.

I know. You are tired. So am I.

Keep getting up.

I know. Your heart isn’t in it. Neither is mine.

Keep getting up.

I know. You are tired of fighting alone. You preaching to the choir!

Keep getting up.

Why?

Your:

Breakthrough.

Miracle.

Dream.

Is waiting!

Keep getting up.

getting up with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Whew! Hard sure is being a big meanie, eh? Geeez.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

Your why IS enough.

Why?

Three letters.

One word.

Such a small thing can lead to a vast array of:

Everything.

Nothing.

Why?

Knowing why, KNOWING why, or why not, IS everything.

It took me forever to know my why.

Why?

Because, I was chasing everyone else’s why, for my life.

Why?

Great question!

The Universe also asked me to ask myself:

Why do you?

Why do you want to?

Why won’t you?

Why could you?

Why should you?

Is your why your reason why you do what you are doing?

Once I discovered my why, I no longer wonder if my try is enough.

Why?

Because my why IS enough.

For, me.

For, God.

For, Life.

For, The Universe.

For, you?

I have no idea. Yet, that would be a you problem, wouldn’t it?

We spend entirely too much time fretting that our why won’t be enough for this one or that one. Enough!

Keep on being you.

Why?

This world NEEDS you and your weird why.

being my why,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: How is your heart today? I am missing mom. Christmas is Sunday. Ah, mom…

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU

Hello Monday!

Hello Monday!

It’s great to see you!

Thank you for all the treats and laughs you have stored up for me today!

I choose to embrace all you have to share with me today.

I choose to love in this day.

I choose to forgive in this day.

I choose to live, with intention, in this day.

I choose to rejoice in this day.

Hello Monday!

So good to see you. I got thangs to do!

doing thangs,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Don’t believe the lie Monday is to be dreaded. Monday gives us another week to begin again and again and again…

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU

Nuff said.

You are all of these things and more, beloveds.

So am I.

Sometimes, we just need to be reminded, don’t we?

Love someone today.

Starting with you.

This has been a long year hasn’t it’? Time for us to rest and get recharged to end the year on a fantastically fabulous note!

You have done your all. That IS enough. Let’s stop giving ourselves such a hard time about these dumb dreams that are being sooooooooooooo stubborn.

Let’s keep on being about being about it.

Let’s keep on doing thangs.

Let’s keep on living WITH intentions.

Let’s keep taking ownership and telling our feels to shut up and sit down somewhere.

Let’s keep telling apathy ha! and to kick rocks.

Let’s keep on loving and being faithful.

Let’s keep walking with authority and in our integrity.

Let’s keeping doing right simply because it IS right.

Let’s keep on laughing.

Let’s keep on rejoicing.

Let’s keep on living.

Let’s keep on being.

Let’s keep on embracing hard.

Let’s keep on happening to our lives.

Let’s keep on…

keeping on with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I am gettin my pieces done. I am keeping my promises to me. Yes, it hurts when silence echoes through a room we wish filled with sound. Yes, it hurts when dreams tarry too long. Yes, it hurts when our try ends up in a heap of a whole lotta nothingness.

Yet, ah, ow and oh! Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

Because of them: Face your fear(s).

Face your fear(s).

Don’t get down on yourself, because of them.

Don’t berate yourself, because of them.

Don’t dismiss yourself, because of them.

Because of them, beloveds, you SHALL overcome and grow and thrive.

Because of them, beloveds, you will learn much about you and the world around you.

Because of them, beloveds, the diamond within, without and all around you, SHALL be revealed.

BECAUSE of them.

Be encouraged.

overcoming with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I have been learning much. BECAUSE of my fears. I am asking myself a lot of whys. I am cutting myself a lot of slack. I am giving myself extra love. BECAUSE of my fears. I am talking about them, acknowledging them. I am giving them to God and sharing with Him how they make me feel.

I told myself, just today, in fact, I would NOT allow myself to give up on me because I was tired. Or, because I was afraid. Or, because I don’t know how to make my dreams come true. Ack!!

The more I try, and fail, the more I want to try. I am enjoying my days. Even the hard parts of it.

Keep going, beloveds. You will be okay. Sometimes, we just need someone to tell us everything will be okay.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU.

♥ Heart check Friday.

It’s Friday.

It’s Fri-yay!

It’s about to be rest day.

Take the rest of this day to rest:

Your mind.

Wrest your mind from ALL that has been worrying you.

Wrest your heart from all that has been scaring you.

Wrest your spirit from all that has been fatiguing you.

You have done your best.

You have given your all.

Let this be enough.

Remember, you ARE enough!

Be encouraged.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Rest.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

I still believe.

I still believe.

Still.

I will.

Believe.

I believe, I will.

I believe.

I will.

Still.

Still, I believe that I will.

I must.

Why?

Someone has to.

Someone must.

I believe that someone has to be me.

I believe that someone must be me.

*Cassandra embraces a world that won’t believe. She chooses. She believes. Still.*

believing still,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: NEVER let your light be extinguished. Keep on believing. We have to. We must. Will you?

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU

I am not strong: Finally.

Finally.

I am content just being…

Me.

I am content just being.

I am content.

I am.

I am?

I AM!

Ah.

Aha!

I wish someone had told me a looooooong time ago that I did not HAVE to be strong ALL the time.

I am not always strong. I am not always weak either. There are days where I am somewhere, there, in between strong and what in the fresh hell is this?!

That’s okay. The world doesn’t want you to know it’s okay to NOT be:

Perfect.

Packaged.

Proper.

It’s okay to be:

Scattered.

Shattered.

Shaken.

Finally, I KNOW I am amazing just by being.

Keep on being you, beloveds. ALL of you. Especially the boring parts. I find folks boring immensely interesting and satisfying.

Stop judging yourself by the world’s standards. You know when your act right is not acting right. You know how you feel about this or that.

Be encouraged. I say these two words EVERY day. I say them to myself. It’s easy to feel lost and alone in such a large world. The world is smaller than you think.

being weak with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I am not strong. Thank God I don’t have to be. Neither do you.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU

Real talk: Take the time.

I wanted chicken strips.

I did NOT want to take the time to preheat the air fryer.

I tossed in aforementioned chicken strips into the aforementioned and cold airfryer. Smh.

You know what had happened…*sigh*.

The chicken strips were NOT my usual crispy.

I was crispy!

Until…*sigh*…Yikes! and Egads! reminded me I had gotten with lazy and decided not to preheat the air fryer.

Real talk, beloveds. Do NOT get with lazy and take the time to do the things that need done in the time it will take to get them crispy.

Sheesh, Cassandra. Get it together. Speaking of which, I have yet another tale to tell. brb.

fixing to tell it,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You are loved and not alone. I am in too much of a hurry to…hahahahaha. Kidding:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

I wish someone had told me…

I wish someone had told me…

So I am telling you:

I wish I would have believed you…sooner.

I would have:

Taken, chances.

Taken a chance, on me, on my dreams.

Taken, the time.

Taken the time, for me, for my dreams.

Ah, I wish I would have believed in you…sooner.

It’s okay to.

It’s okay to…

Lose, your sense of humor. Things are not always funny.

It’s okay to…

Lose, your perspective. Things are not always clear.

It’s okay to…

Lose your way. God is NEVER lost.

It’s okay to…

Lose, your mind. For God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

It’s okay to…

Lose, your want to. Your want to won’t always want to. So what? We do because we CHOOSE TO, not when we feel like it.

Its okay to…

To lose hope. Sometimes, you have to lose ALL your hope, in to find hope, once again.

It’s okay to…

Lose. Winning tastes so much sweeter,  after your millionth loss.

It’s okay to.

It’s also okay  NOT to!

You SHALL be okay, either way!

Keep going.

going with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I wish someone had told me sooner so I am telling you now:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU