Tag: encouragement

Let your work do the work.

You have done your work.

You have asked in faith.

You have dared.

You have given your all.

You have tried.

You have battled fatigue.

You have walked while tired.

You have fought the good fight.

Now, beloveds, it’s time to let your work do the work.

Breathe.

Rest.

Wait patiently.

Enjoy the process.

Get your mind renewed.

Climb on The Father’s Lap. If you don’t know Him, climb on up there anyway and introduce yourself. He shall welcome you as any dear Dad does and will.

waiting patiently with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I love you. Love me back. Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Rest here.

If you have wandered into this blog, beloved, it is NOT by accident. It’s a lifetime in the making.

If you are reading these words, you ARE:

A mountain mover.

A life changer.

A force to be reckoned with.

You are also:

Exhausted.

Tired.

Why?

Because you are a constant giver who has never been given permission to rest and receive.

You are ALWAYS the one:

Holding the door 🚪 open for others to pass through.

Giving up your place in line for others to enjoy the blessing.

Handing over your wins so others can receive the acknowledgement and financial rewards.

Putting aside your dreams so others…

Um, beloveds, did you catch the pattern here?🤔

One of the main reasons for MY why is to tap you on the shoulder to get you to ask you about WHY you are doing this to yourself.

Why?

So you can stop doing this to yourself.

Why?

Your heart is just as important as those you hold the door for.

Here, in this space, I just want you to:

Rest.

Laugh.

Forgive yourself.

Give yourself permission to feel.

Give yourself permission to call yourself a moron when you have acted like a moron.

Laugh at yourself.

Cut yourself some slack.

Feel free to share your thoughts with folk as it may help them share some thoughts.

Grow. Or not.

Be weird. Or not.

Cry.

Wonder.

Rant with me.

Laugh at me.

Love yourself.

Love others.

Love no one.

And KNOW it’s okay to be all this, some of this or none of this.

Rest here. This space has been 30 plus years in the making.

Where do I get MY rest, you ask? Awww, thanks for asking:

On The Father’s Lap.

Here, sharing with you dumb thoughts.

Music.

The Bible.

Kicking it with My Bestie Jesus.

Yakking with my wombie(twin sis).

Yakking with my big bro and sis.

Daily ☕ coffee yaks with mom who is in heaven now. I miss her physically here but learning to love her this way. Still miss her. Love you mom.

I have told God I would enjoy having someone who reaches out to ME on the daily. Someone wo is invested in ME. Someone who enjoys thinking of my weird who can’t wait to be with me.

Until then, I shall continue to invest my love in as many hearts as I can get my words to.

Rest here. You are welcome. Invite some friends. Make some friends.

here as best I can be,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I love me some you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Thankfully, God loves dummies and dopes.

Thankfully, God loves dummies and dopes.

Why?

Because I have been both!🤣

Why?

💵 problems.

More 💵 problems.

Then, there has been more 💵 problems on top of the other money problems.

Other than that, life has been just 🍑 peachy.😳😵‍💫🤯😭🥵🙏🤷‍♀️

I am learning how not to be tooooooooooooooo much of a dummy and dope as I continue to embrace ALL the hard.

This time WILL pass. A new set of hard will take it’s place.😵‍💫♥️😳😭🤣😆

Be encouraged. Crawl onto The Father’s Lap and let Him know when you are:

Worried.

Afraid.

Angry.

Doubting.

Tired.

Hurt.

Troubled.

Bored.

Annoyed.

Frustrated.

Even if HE is, to you, the source of those things.  He can take it.

If you don’t have a close relationship. Or, no relationship…🤷‍♀️…climb on up there, introduce yourself and let Him have it. He can take it.

Today, I climbed up with chicken strips and tater tots. He enjoyed the tater tots the most. I made them extra crunchy. 🥰

Be encouraged.

Things will be alright. Until they are, enjoy the rest that’s semi okay. Okay?

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I love you. You are more than a like/subscription to me. I pray for you each day. For every person who stops by. You are my why, beloveds. I ask God to bless and keep you. On the daily. Be encouraged, k? Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Yikes!

Yikes!

*Cassandra rereads pieces written while troubled and half asleep and promises to NEVER write another piece whilst troubled and half asleep.*

Sheeesh!

Yikes!

😳😳😁🤣🥰

Cassandra

Note: Be sure and get enough rest. Also, stop troubling yourself about the troubles that are troubling you. Give your troubles to God and go to sleep. He needs no sleep. He fights for us. He works things for our good. Rest now…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being… YOU!

Who is this me that I see staring back at me?

Who is this?

Who is she?

Wo are you, I ask?

This me.

Staring back at me.

She is old now.

Was she ever young?

Who are you, I ask?

Who AM I, she wonders back.

Who am I, I wonder?

As I blunder.

Making my way.

MY way.

Through this vast thing called life.

There are days I know.

Other days, I know not.

I know not what, or who, or why, or how this me came to be.

Who is this me that I see staring back at me?

God knows.

He’s not tellin’. Says that I have to figure me out.

Crap.

figuring me out,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Words woke me up. They always do. Hurry, they said. Hurry! I hurried. The only problem, beloveds, is I rarely, if ever, know what they are going to say.

This is what came into being. This. These words. Yet, another iteration of…me.

Who is this me that I see staring back at me?

Ah.

Aha!

Keep allowing your dreams to wake you up. Demanding. Asking. Showing you…YOU!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Frfr: For real? For real!?

Me: For real?

God: For real.

Me: For real?!

God: For real.

Me: Wow!

Life: What He say?! What did He say?!

The Universe: *whispers to Life*.

Life: For real?

The Universe: For real.

Life: Wow.

The Universe: I know.

Huh?

You wanna know what He, what God, told me this morning? He tells me this every morning. And, EVERY morning, it just blows what’s left of my tired, sometimes disbelieving mind.

Huh? Whatcha say? You want to know, to hear what He tells me, EVERY day?

K:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Yep, blows my mind, beloveds, EVERY day. It’s why, I must tell you, on the daily, on the regular that you are loved and not alone.

How amazing is that!!!!!!!??????

*hugs self*

*hugs the whole of the world*

I so wish more folks knew how much they were loved. Ah, that I could tell the whole of the world. Since, I can’t yet reach them all, how about you help me out, eh, beloveds?

Keep on being you, would you please and thanks. Asking for A Friend.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I can’t think of a more awesome message than that. I have spent a delicious night wrapped in The Arms of Love. Fantastic. Be encouraged. Keep on keeping on. Keep trying. Yes, I know. It gets old. Too bad. We got thangs to do. Get to doing thangs with me. Let’s go, people!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Life is more than hard things.

Life can be hard.

Life is more than hard things.

Life is much more than enduring hardness.

Life is sooooooooooooo full.

Of life!

Live it!

Live!!

Stop surviving life.

Stop using distraction to hide from life.

Face your hard, beloveds, then get on with your life.

ALL of it.

The hard is simply life momentarily being hard.

Hard is never here to stay. Unless, you are being hard-headed and not listening to life and it’s happenings.

Be encouraged. I say this almost daily. Why? I needed to be reminded. Daily.

Life is more than hard things.

living amidst the hard,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Nuff said. You are so much farther than you know. Keep going.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

We need the wilderness.

We need the wilderness.

All of it.

We need the struggle.

Every inch of it.

We need the hard.

Every pound of it.

We need the heat.

Every second of it.

We need the darkness.

Every day of it.

We need the lack.

Every part of it

We need the fight.

Every round of it.

We need the randomness.

Every moment of it.

We need the depth.

Every mile of it.

We need the lonely.

Every morsel of it.

Why?

Great question!

Keep asking.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

If you are in the wilderness take comfort. This period is important in your life. Keep wondering. Keep wandering. You are exactly were you supposed to be at this time in your life. God has factored everything into the equation.

Your fear, your hesitation, your doubt, your frustration, your anger, your own believe, your faith, your lack thereof, your try have been factored into the equation.

Enjoy your life. Embrace what happens in your day. Don’t forget to happen to your day. There are no victims here, beloveds.

Love someone, starting with you. Pass on some love to me as well.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I no longer care about the obstacles.

I no longer care about the obstacles.

Obstacles, now beloveds, are now just that. Obstacles.

Not:

Deal breakers.

Negative life changers.

Fear inducers.

Excuse makers.

Doubt increasers.

Now, beloveds, obstacles are just obstacles in my way.

Obstacles are just things needing to be:

Removed.

Overcome.

Laughed at.

Obstacles, I am learning are:

Teachers.

Faith builders.

Way makers.

Belief instillers.

Tools used by God, by Life, by The Universe to aid in my quest.

Ah.

Aha!

Obstacle used to drive me up 10 walls. Don’t get me wrong, beloveds. They still good on my last nerve. I have just learned to do with them.

I am learning, still, to try and remove as many as I can. With those I can’t move, I asked for help with.

To me, now, obstacles are just question makers now. They asked me if I am still willing to try. They asked me in my still willing to fight. They asked me how much my dreams I worth. They make me question why I am doing what I am doing.

Obstacles, I find, by my biggest cheerleaders. Obstacles, roofer me to keep on keeping on. Obstacles, demand I keep removing them so I can get to my dreams.

I promised myself I would not give up on my dreams. I promise obstacles I what fight them every day for the rest of my life. I have no idea how long that live shall last.

In the meantime, I fight on.

Keep on fighting, beloveds. Keep moving your own obstacles. Keep believing in you. Keep asking for the help you need. Keep walking by faith and not by what you see.

Your mountains shall move. Yet, your mountains are moving.

All this fighting has me hungry. I hear chicken strips calling my name…

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

We are more.

We are more, beloveds.

Much more than a number.

Much more than click bait.

Much more than a paycheck.

Much more than a like.

Much more than a subscription.

Much more.

We are:

Worthy.

Worthwhile.

Worth it.

We can:

Be.

Have.

Do.

Why?

Just because we are.

Period.

Nuff said.

End of story.

I have been studying and studying and studying and studying. Rinse. Repeat.

The more I have learned, beloveds, the more I have learned what I do, what I love, what I aspire to DO does not have a pot of gold at the end of the financial 🌈 rainbow.

That said, NOTHING is more priceless to me than these words:

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

It saddens me how many folk who don’t hear this on the regular. It keeps me up at night.

I ask God EVERY day/night what I can do. I ask The Universe EVERY day/night what I can do. I ask Life EVERY day/night what I can do.

This is the time of year that’s the hardest. Work becomes super busy. My hands super tired. My mind, from work, exceedingly exhausted.

I want to write and just toooooooooo tired. Yet, how can I not?

There are too many folks who are judging themselves because of a past they never asked for.

There are too many folk alone because of thinking themselves unworthy because of what they don’t possess.

There are too many folk who are bleeding to death in plain sight. Hidden behind glass walls  prettily made up so folks can’t see the hurt, the sad, the angry, the lonely inside.

We are more.

We are.

God, I am trying to be more. Open the windows of heaven for me.

asking as Your Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I wish I knew how, beloveds. Until I find out, I give the oyster crackers I have/am. I wish I had baskets and baskets of bread where I could feed the world. Ah, God, why You pressing me so? Make it so or leave me to lead my small life. Stop telling me I can change the world with MY words. Ack. Crap.

Be encouraged. Why? Because, I may need you to encourage me.

Egads! How morbid was that?!😳🤷‍♀️

We are more, beloveds. Embrace you. ALL of you. Enjoy you. ALL of you. Let this world see you. ALL of you. There are folk who will love you for the rest of your days. Let ’em in please and thanks. Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!