Fear, ALL you have done is given me the ammunition to fight you with!

Fear, ALL you have done is given me the ammunition to fight you with!

I shall fight you with faith.

Hate, ALL you have done is given me the ammunition to fight you with!

I shall fight you with love.

Discouragement, ALL you have done is given me the ammunition to fight you with!

I shall fight you with effort.

Apathy, ALL you have done is given me the ammunition to fight you with!

I shall fight you with empathy.

Hardship, ALL you have done is given me the ammunition to fight you with!

I shall fight you with prayer.

Unbelief, ALL you have done is given me the ammunition to fight you with!

I shall fight you with God’s Word.

Beloveds, be encouraged. Use your hard as weapons in your hands. Fight back! Fight on! Fight!

We are NOT victims of our circumstances. We CHOOSE how to respond to EVERY circumstance.

I no longer see obstacles as mere obstacles. I see them as choices to be made. I see them as opportunities to expand my try. I see them as gifts that brings me new chances to strengthen my faith muscles.

Keep using ALL things for your good. You got this!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I don’t do easy. I do hard.

Quitting is easy.

Apathy is easy.

Giving in to anger is easy.

Allowing hate to fester is easy.

Turning your back on others is easy.

I do hard.

Loving hard headed folk is hard.

Empathising with folk who want to hate those who look like me is hard.

Reaching out is hard.

Giving voice to the voiceless is hard.

Loving the majority, even while the majority has chosen to allow hate towards those who look like me.

I don’t do easy. I do hard. What do you do?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: The world is what WE make it. I’m doing what I can with my corner.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Unique: Repeat after me.

Repeat after me:

I am unique.

I am qualified.

I am uniquely qualified to handle EVERYTHING presented to/for me.

Nuff said.

Now, get out there and LIVE!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I ain’t mad at sad.

Sad came to visit. Sad wanted to hang out a bit and commiserate about mom.

I invited sad for ☕ coffee.

Me and sad talked of sad things:

Losing mom.

Losing my job.

Losing supposed friends.

Thanksgiving alone.

Then, I presented sad with it’s cap 🧢 and sent sad on it’s way. I told sad to send joy around.

Joy stopped by for some 🎶 music and fun. Want to join us?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: It’s okay to be sad, at times. Be sad, beloveds, then keep it moving. You have too much life to live. You have too much love inside you to share. You have too much love to receive.

Open your heart and receive. 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!

Real talk: You are stronger than you think.

Real talk, beloveds. You really are much stronger than you think. You are not and have not, given yourself credit for all that you have gone through. Think about it.

In 2016, I was given 60 days to pack up and move to a state I had never lived in. I had no car, of my own. I had no place to stay. There was NO immediate housing. I had 60 days to:

Find and buy a car.

Find a place to stay.

Pack up TWO homes.

Pay to have TWO households moved to TWO different states.

Start working on September 12th whether I had found said home/car.

I did NOT think I would/could make it through THAT.

The 60 days passed. Things closed. I found a car. I found a place to stay. I began working on September 12th. I made it through THAT.

I had no friends. I had no family. I had NO idea how to process things. I had NO time to process things.

Three and a half months later, I lost mom. Early Christmas morning. I did NOT think I would/could make it through THAT.

I scraped through. Barely. Just. By a whisker. I made it through THAT.

When the tornado happened, I wondered how I would/could I make it through THAT. I am still making my way through THAT. I will make it. Some kind of way, beloveds.

There are days when I wonder WHY God left me here. Left here to barely scrape by? Left here to wonder/wander around wondering what in the fresh hell? I feel as bad as I did as when mom passed away. Heckamiah.

I say all of that to say this:

There are times, in our lives, when we have NO idea if we can or will make it. We CAN. We WILL. Take it from someone who withstood an actual tornado in her yard. GEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZ!

At my lowest, I angrily told God that He could have let me roll on out of here if I was to be left stuck in THIS!!

This:

Hell.

Unknown.

Hellatiously unknown and fearful place! I was TIRED of being afraid. I was TIRED of wondering if/how I would make it.

I’m tired. Still, I will make it through. Some kind of way. How do I know? Because, I did it before. I shall do it again! Ha!

I absolutely refuse to give up. I don’t feel very 💪 strong. So what? I have thangs to do. So do you. I got through THAT, I can get through THIS. So can you.

Let’s go…

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You are stronger than you think.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Whatcha Doin?

Whatcha DOIN with them there dreams of yours, beloveds?

Are you working on them?

Are you daydreaming about them?

If not, get to it. IF you can dream it, you can make it happen. Some kind of way. May not come as you thought it should/could/would. Doesn’t mean it ain’t comin’!

Get on up, beloveds. Kick to kickin’ some life hind end to get it workin’ on your behalf.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: What ARE you DOING with those dreams of yours?

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Stop holding back.

Stop!!

Stop:

Holding back.

Giving up.

Hiding.

Get on out there, beloveds. Live out your dreams. Everyday. Work towards them. Pray over them. Invest in them. Pursue them. Relentlessly. Religiously. Zealously.

Refuse to give up.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You CAN. You WILL. We have to keep it moving. Whether we feel like it or not.

Have an amazing day. This day is what YOU make it. We are NOT helpless, hapless fools. We are deliberate, hopeful ones.😆🥰🤣

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You have not been forsaken. You have not been forgotten.

You have not been forsaken.

You have not been forgotten.

If you are reading these words, beloveds, they are meant for YOU. Yes, YOU. How do I know this? Because, I have prayed and asked God to bring them to he/she/they who are in the most need.

I have NEVER felt more forsaken or more forgotten in all of my 56 years of life. Even losing mom wasn’t THIS hard.

The more, I have tried, to move FORWARD, the more it appears that I have, in fact, moved fifty steps backwards.

Fear has been trying to get me to go back to the comfortableness of not doing too much, not giving too much, not trying to much. It’s much easier, it seems, to give as little as possible. It feels as though it would be better to stop hoping for anything more than the bare minimum.

Hooey on THAT! There is too much out there for us, beloveds. We will NOT go backwards.

We have NOT been forgotten. We have NOT been forsaken. It just feels like that, at times. Isn’t it a good thing that feels do NOT run our lives? WE run them. WE choose how we respond. WE decide if we will waste time being angry and bitter over the happenstances that have happened.

WE choose to be free, by our thoughts and habits. WE decide if we will be imprisoned by our choices, by our inactions/actions.

Be encouraged. Get up. Turn on the lights. Breathe. Then, begin. Again. You CAN. You WILL.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: These hard days are just that: hard days. They are NOT a mandate for how the rest of your life will play out. You will move beyond the hard and into the greatness The Universe is fixing to reward your tenacity/integrity with. Get excited. Your best days truly are before you. You simply must get through this hard. That’s it. Simple, huh?…lol. Keep going. 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!

Fear, I laugh at thee.

Fear, I laugh at thee.

Hard, you humor me.

Doubt, I cast thee aside.

Hope, I keep my arms open wide.

Yea, fear, I truly laugh at thee. You thought you had me!

laughing at fear,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Beloveds, fear not. Fear is nothing but a lyin’, denyin’ fool. You CAN. You WILL. Your dreams are being ripened. Keep on looking UP. Keep on moving FORWARD. Laugh at fear. Tell doubt to get out of your way. You have much too much to do to be worrying about things that will probably never happen.

You SHALL overcome all that has seemingly overcome you. Be encouraged. I am praying for us all.



One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I am not…

It’s comforting to know we’re much more than the mistakes we have made.


Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You are not alone. Even when it feels like it…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!