Tag: encouragement

Ah.

Ah.

I’m having a blast, beloveds.

Daydreaming.

Planning.

Gathering.

Learning.

Stumbling.

Falling.

Rising.

Pursuing.

Life is short, beloveds. Get out there and live.

Soar.

Where you are.

You don’t need a fat wallet to be satisfied.

You can experience joy right NOW.

Keep doing you.

Keep doing hard. It WILL pay off in the end.

Don’t join the timid souls who are giving up on everything, and everyone because life is hard or not playing fair.

So what?

Life IS hard, at time and does not always play fair.

Stay in the game.

Don’t worry about the score.

Don’t concern yourself with who wins the trophy 🏆.  If you, fine. If not, be gracious with the winner.

What a wonderful day!

embracing my moments,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, so you are supposed to be enjoying your moments.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU

Why don’t You? Why won’t you?

Me: Why don’t You?

God: Why won’t you?

Me: Why did You?

God: Why didn’t you?

Me: When will you?

God: Why couldn’t you?

Me: You didn’t ask loud enough.

God: You were too loud to hear.

Me: Ack.

God: Ack.

Me: What now?

God: Now what?

Me: Kinda hard to argue with Your logic.

God: True that.

🤷‍♀️🥰,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I grew up being admonished to never question God. How the hooey can you ever build a RELATIONSHIP with Someone you can’t have HONEST dialog with?

Life is challenging. Life challenges us to keep questioning our why and our way so we can live a life with integrity and not have to worry about why.

Be encouraged. Stop looking for easy. Easy is other there hanging out with lazy, defeat and discouragement. Do you REALLY want to spend your years with THEM?!😳

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Believe in YOU.

Believe in YOU, beloveds.

Not the mistakes you have made.

Believe in your future, beloveds.

Not in the past that has clouded your present.

Believe in your try, beloveds.

Not in the failures your try has left behind.

Why?

Because you are getting all your no’s out of the way!

Be encouraged. Stop focus on what you don’t have. Use your little and ask God and The Universe to make it a lot. Look at what Jesus did with a couple of fish and bread!

believing with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep doing you. You are the miracle you have been seeking. Haven’t you noticed the changes made in you? How do I know? You wouldn’t be here otherwise!

Ah, beloveds, be encouraged. We can do this. We can. Life is so very precious. Breathe it in. You are worth it. Keep going. We got thangs to do, don’t we?

Be not discouraged. Your disappointment is leading you to greatness. You shall see.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Prepare: Don’t fear the storm.

Alexa interrupted a perfectly good cup of coffee to holler at me at an impending storm which is due to hit at midnight.

The bag of trash that has been nagging me for TWO days, arched it’s eyebrow with a look that it advised it would behoove me to bust a move and take it out.

I weighed the choice between leaving my comfortable chair against the strong possiblity of something awful gonna grow and crawl out of the trash after being snowed in for who knows when long.

As you can imagine I got some act right quick, fast and in a super hurry!🏃‍♀️

Done!

Now, I can relax and enjoy whatever I was enjoying before the trash interrupted me.

Huh? Oh, yes. Coffee! Care to join me?

Don’t fear upcoming storms, beloveds. Prepare as best you can then get on with enjoying your day and life.

Challenging times comes to just that: Challenge us!

Tell woe is me to shut up already. Take out some so what and sprinkle it liberally over every corner of your life.

Tough stuff happened. So what? See how easy that was?🤣

Your life can and will be as amazing as you choose and allow it to be. If you don’t like where you are prepare to move on to something else.

DO something. Doesn’t have to be momentous. Just do something to get momentum going. Momentum will take care of the rest.

By the by, beloveds, do you know EXACTLY what you want God and The Universe to give to you? Specifically?

If someone knocked on your door and asked would you be able to tell them? If not, get to daydreaming and fashioning what you want things to look like.

Then, open your eyes and do. I realized I have accomplished much more than I thought in pursuit of my dream.

I have consistently written every day for so long now I can’t remember the last time I didn’t write.

I have also been using my job to strengthen my skills. I talk to oodles of folk every day. I am using every interaction to improve communication and work on my soft skills. I am super passionate and super excitable so I am forever working to temper my passion so I can communicate effectively.

I have been working on my health. Working on my chicklets, my mentals. I don’t know why it tickles to call my brain chicklets. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤣

I have asked some folk for help who said they would. They didn’t. I have tried to network on our workplace and asked for what I needed/wanted. Nothing happened.

I have asked my work to utilize my gifts and skills and reached out as high as I could go. Was advised I would be utilized. I wasn’t.

After George Floyd was murdered, I reached out to countless organizations and folks who said they cared and would help folk like me. They said they would partner with me so I could help make a difference. They didn’t. Nothing was different.

I have offered myself and offered myself and offered myself. So far at 55 there have been no takers.

I have asked God many, many, many times why my try, my ask, my effort, why me, ME, has not been pulled off the shelf and utilized in the manner I have always longed to be.

No answer. Nothing. Nada!

In the meantime,  I prepare. To be used. To be able to encourage as many as life will allow.

I stand, prepared.

Waiting.

Available.

In the meantime, I do that which I long to do: Encourage folk.

Hhmm.

Ah.

Aha!

I am grateful, beloveds, that God and Life and The Universe did not answer my desperate cry for rest and sabbatical yet.

Why? Because, I have been given so much more than a sabbatical could ever have been given.

I would never have learned how to embrace hard. I would never have found out how much I care about things.

I would have never seen the fight in me grow so strong I no longer care what happens as I KNOW God is with me and I CAN do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

I would never have seen me grow so much I can finally grieve for my dad.

I would never have grown so much I am unapologetically me no matter what folk may or may not think of me.

Delay has not been denial. Delay has been God’s Grace so I could learn to stand, grow and LIVE. In the present. Joyful. Hopeful. Resilient.

I would have never met this me. This me, no longer a stranger. This me, a wonderfully goofy friend! I am no longer my own worst enemy.

Hallelujah. 🥰🤗🙌

Prepare, beloveds. Your time, your turn will come. In the meantime, look around you and see all that you have accomplished in your waiting.

If my dreams never come to pass, I will and am enjoying my life.

Life is short. Live. Love someone. Start with you.

prepared for my dream to come true,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

#HereForIt

Note: I sometimes wonder why we were not born fully formed. I guess logistically, for one, we wouldn’t fit in mom’s tummy.😊😁😂

I imagine it’s in part for us to learn all the lessons we will need to lead and act out a successful life. What does success mean to you?

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

What if you could? Would you?

What if you could change your(the) world by:

(Fill in your why here)

Would you?

Really?

Would you start today?

Would you give it your all?

Would you sacrifice your time?

Would you keep going even when it hurt?

Would you do so if you had to do so alone?

Would you if no crowd cheered you on?

Would you if no 🏆 trophy greeted you at the end?

Would you if the only heart/life changed was your own?

Would you even if fortune was not the end result?

If the answer is yes, beloveds, what on earth are you waiting for? Life is short.

If the answer is no, why on earth not?! This world needs YOU, beloved. Yea, you. This world needs your:

Integrity.

Truth.

Uniqueness.

Love.

Time.

Thoughts.

Share them, beloveds. Share YOU. Lift up your head. It’s time you showed shame the door. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

You have tried. You try, still. You are a hero. Most folk would have given up a long time ago. You have experienced much.

Stop comparing your struggles to others and finding yours unworthy or not special enough to be counted.

You matter. You do. Get up now, beloveds. You have things to do. Let THIS moment be the LAST moment you will dismiss your try and your worth.

Come. There is a world out there in need. We can change things, beloveds. We can. In our corner of the world. In those around us. In us.

Let’s go. We got this. God and The Universe has us all.

believing in you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I’m excited. I’m thinking about my first motivational video I am learning how to make. I have spent an entire off day working on my dream.

Ah, God. Help me reach the entirety of the world with MY try. Make my words viral. Folk need to hear and know they are loved and not alone.

Be encouraged, beloveds. Shoot me an email. Let me know how you are. Send a warm thought or prayer in my direction that I might do service to all my heart wants to give.

Do you want it? Really?

Do you want your dream to come true, beloveds?

Really?

This may seem like a ridiculous question but it’s important.

Why?

Let me ask another question:

If The Universe showed up and said “Let’s get started”, will you:

Run?

Laugh?

Cry?

Make excuses you are too busy “right now”?

Get started?

Wonder what the heck were you thinking and decide to stay in your safe space?

Yesterday, God and The Universe began opening me up to all kinds of tutorials and courses and software and all kinds of things to help me to actually put action to my dreams and start seeing what I had been dreaming and demanding for aeons.

What did I do when that happened? I cried of course then started wondering what in the fresh hell was I thinkinggggggggg, Caaaaasssaaandra!

😳🥸♥️😳🥸

After I got over a bit of stage fright, I began to daydream and ponder realistic goals I could achieve.

Ah.

Aha!

If The Universe has been driving you up 50 walls by whispering the whole of the world is waiting for you, despair not. You are on the precipice of wonderful adventures.

Keep fighting through your anxt. Keep challenging yourself not to give up. Keep being HONEST and admit you don’t know how. Keep asking to be shown how.

Mostly, beloveds, KNOW that YOU are the miracle you seek. The instant I settled, within myself, that I could soar right where I am, The Universe showed up.

See, God could have opened financial doors a long time ago. But, I would have been the same broken, afraid, hopeless, lazy person when it came to my own dream that I had been forever.

This sounds harsh, beloveds, but it’s true. I didn’t try as hard as I could for ME. I killed myself for everyone else to the point I had no energy, time or belief left for me.

Or, so I had lied to myself. It was only after I became honest with ME, with God, with Life, with The Universe, with family and friends, I could begin the hard work of healing and growing.

I share this in hopes it may encourage you and give you the courage to confront yourself, forgive yourself and move forward with your dreams and life.

Today, is the first day of my writing life MY way. A friend told me “It’s all about the blog”. She told me to keep writing but would not say why.

Many, many times I asked myself why bother when nobody reads it anyway?!

Yet, something inside said, still says, to reach out. Every day. Somewhere, someone needs to see and hear they are loved and not alone.

Now, I have oodles of ridiculous words and Cassandra sayings to make a million inspirational  YouTube videos or other podcasts and things.

I’m taking a chance on me. I am more than just one of many. As are you, beloveds.

Let’s take hold of our fears and do thangs anyway, shall we?

You are your niche, your target 🎯 audience. Point yourself in Life’s direction and let The Universe take care of the rest.

Let’s go!

excitedly horrified,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: We CAN. We WILL. WE HAVE TO!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

When nothing happens take out the trash.

Nothing.

Nothing?

Nothing!

Crap!

Ack!

Fresh hell!

*Cassandra scrounges around in the fulfilled dreams bag and found every dream fulfilled but hers*

Crap!!!

*pout*

*Cassandra decides to use her frustrations to clean out the fridge and take out the trash*.

*pout*

keeping it moving,

Cassandra

🤗#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep going. Your steps ARE leading you somewhere. Embrace and enjoy where you are, presently.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God said so.

God: Get out there, Cassandra, and LIVE.

Me: I don’t know how.

God: So?

God: Go on ahead and dream, beloved.

Me: I don’t know how to make my dreams come true.

God: So?

God: Tell The Universe to give up your bounty.

Me: I don’t know if It will.

God: So?

God: So what, My Dear One? Get out there and LIVE. Go on ahead and dream. Tell The Universe to give up your bounty.

Me: K.

living/asking/telling,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

#HereForIt

Note: Life is short. Get out there and LIVE, beloveds. Go on ahead and dream, beloveds. Tell The Universe to give up your bounty. Why? Because God said so!🤗🥰❤🙏

Some days you just gotta say it is well.

I’m doing my best, beloveds, not to get arrested.

I find myself microphone, er, blue screwdriver in hand, bellowing ‘It Is Well’ as loud as I can legally get away with.😁😳🎶🎤😎

Life has been a bit rough lately. That’s okay. Life was just being life.

I have learned that and I’m still learning that lesson.

I have also learned and I’m still learning that there are time you just have to say it is well.

Yes, Lord, life hurts right now, but it is well with my soul!

Oh the bills keep piling up but it is well with my soul!

I’m lonely right now but it is still well with my soul!!

I don’t know how I’m gonna make it out of this messed called my life but it is well with my soul.

I don’t know how but it is well with my soul.

I don’t know when but it is still wellwith my soul.

I don’t know if I will ever see my dreams come true the way I would like them in my lifetime but it is still well with my soul.

Life is good. It is well. I will be content. I will be satisfied. I am content. I am satisfied.

waiting with contentment,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: It is well. Remember to enjoy life knowing life is not an endless battle. Yes, we have battles WITHIN life. Enjoy your life. Be encouraged. Love someone. Start with you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Refill your heart💝: Do these three things.

I am at the self-check pump refilling my heart.

I am:

Listening to uplifting music.🤗

Watching a beautiful youtube piece with gorgeous ocean views and encouraging scriptures. 🥰

Every day, I do three things to fuel up and fill up:

Read something positive/uplifting.

Watch something positive/uplifting.

Listen to something positive/uplifting.

If I can’t get in all three, I try to do at least one of them.

EVERY DAY.

Why?

It’s crucial to maintain our heart, our mind, our soul, our body.

Otherwise, rust and buildup and weeds and all manner of things will clog up our drains and will drain us of our will!😁😂😳🙌

I’m getting refilled and my strength renewed. These past storms have been rough.

I’m still deep within a fight and storm but taking a breather to look around and remember this is but a test. From life. Of faith. I grow stronger with every willing step forward.

Ah, life. I love the living of you!

Yall are going to have to excuse me. Microphone, or, my blue screwdriver calleth!

Be encouraged. Be still and know He is God.

His and yours,

Cassandra,

🤗#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I love you.