Tag: lifestyle

Keep going. Even during the storm.

Keep going.

Even during the storm.

Remain hopeful.

Even during the storm.

Stay faithful.

Even during the storm.

Storms have been raging here. Last night, ALL night. Through the morning. They have paused. Long enough for me to stop by and encourage someone who is in desperate need of respite from an awful long storm seige.

The storms are due to start again in three hours and rage for the rest of the afternoon and through til Easter tomorrow. 😳. Good egads.

I must confess that hankering down in the bathroom, with tornado sirens blasting, came mighty close to reminding me of last year’s tornado.

The anxiety I am fighting with, today, has everything to do with last year. I keep reminding myself this is NOT last year. Tell that to my terrified soul last night.

Storms pass. They are not personal. They are doing their job. Our job, beloveds, is to continue standing on FAITH when storms show up.

Yea, they can be mighty loud and scary. Yes, they can be capricious and cause awful damage to some, whilst sparing others.

I don’t know why hard has to be so flipping hard. I DO know hard is doing it’s job in revealing the character inside.

Be encouraged. Do what you can to prepare. Survive. Keep it moving.

Also, reach out for support when going through hard times. We need one another. I have been reaching out to family and friends and letting folk know I am struggling alone.

Struggles don’t last always. Be sure to find the joy in your day. I am fixing to have a bowl of Golden Grahams and a yak with God to let Him know I feel soooooooo alone and tiny, at the moment.

Be encouraged, beloveds. We are loved and not alone.

thankful in the midst of the storms,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Dear God, I’m disappointed but I ain’t mad.😳🙏

Dear God, I’m disappointed but I ain’t mad.😳🙏

Okay, I’m a bit disappointed AND discouraged because things are not moving where I can SEE.

I can’t see. Crapola. Sheeeeeeeuuuuut.😳

A friend told me that not knowing what to do can be hard. But, needed or some kind of inspiration or other.

God, I was just too discouraged and disappointed to half listen to his rah rah words.

I promised myself that I would NOT get in my feels because You are currently playing hide and seek when I need to see You the most.

I have learned enough to keep it shut, during these times. Hollering and screaming won’t make You show up sooner.

Ah, God, I will be glad when this test is over. It has been incredibly nerve wracking.

Easter is coming. I know you are super busy getting ready!❤🥰

I just stopped ’round to let You know that I ain’t mad. Just disappointed. This too shall pass.

disappointed but thankful still,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged. Life is good. Even when it’s hard.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Why FOUR, 4?!😳🌊

My dreams are about to overtake me, beloveds. 🌊

WHY, 4, though?!

4 am.

4 am.

4 am.

Like clock work, dreams get to yanking on my ears at or around 4 am.😳🤷‍♀️

I don’t even have to set the alarm clock. I picked up a bit of a cold yesterday. Still, early this morning….yank! Bleary eyed, I snatched up the phone…*sigh*. 3:51 am.

I just stopped ’round to wake others up since I have to be. Oops, I mean, I stopped by to encourage folk to get up and get to pursuing thangs today!

We got this.

We go!

being about business,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Let’s go!!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Stop making things so darned comfortable(convenient).

I moved my coffee station.

It was in a ‘convenient’, meaning lazy spot.

I moved it. I moved it to where I would have to make an EFFORT.

So often, beloveds, we seek to make things super comfortable and convenient. There is nothing wrong with these things.

Still, comfort and convenient can often lead to lazy and I don’t think so.

Challenge yourself. Move things out of your comfort zone, today.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Trying to be comfortable has gotten me into more trouble than I would like to admit. I have made things uncomfortable. I go where I have not wanted to go. I do the exhausting things I didn’t want to do. because they are necessary to achieve my dreams. Hang in there. You’ll get there. I know it’s exhausting. Keep going.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

12am!😳:Be careful what you say to your dreams.

I had given my dreams a good talking to, beloveds.

I asked my dreams to STOP waking me at 4 am already!

I’m old!

I’m 56!

I’m sleepy at 4!

I’m old, 56 AND sleepy at 4 am.

My dreams said nothing. I went to sleep satisfied. Ha!

My dreams have been waking me at midnight…🤗🥰🤣

giving it all I’ve got,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged. Keep working on your dreams. Enjoy every sleepless moment.


One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Perspective: Keep being the needle in the haystack. 🔦

My dreams feel like looking for a needle in a haste to act. My dreams feel like the needle. The millions of people I am competing with seems like the haystack.

Daunting.

Intimidating.

Knee buckling.

Still, no one will ever find my needle, my dreams, if I don’t put them out there for all to find/see.

That gives me the courage to keep putting out as many needles as I can! One or two just may slip through the cracks and be seen. I hope so.

I hope…

Keep on putting your needles out there, beloveds. Yes, the chances are remote. That said, there IS the opportunity IF we but summon the courage to keep putting our dreams out there for the world to see and judge.

I have had two mind-numbing defeats these last days as I tossed my dream hats in the ring. I cried. I quit. I cried while I quit.

Then, I got up and tried again!

Be encouraged, beloveds.

We CAN.

We WILL.

being that needle in a haystack,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Keep going. You got this. God has us all.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Take your eyes off what you may lose. Set your gaze upon what you shall seize!

It’s amazing, beloveds, what will come, from the depths of your soul, when you take your eyes off what you may lose, and set it upon what you are determined to be, have and do!

I did not realize how much of my time I had been wasting terrifying myself with losing my apartment.

Long before the tornado, my sole focus, internally, was barely scraping by so I could keep the lights on and a roof over my head.

Growing up, we lived on the razor’s edge of enough. There was never enough food, by the end of the month.

There was never enough money to fund the dreams of 13 children.

There was never enough time for mom to give us the individual time and love we each craved from her.

We lived in a state of perpetual ‘never enough’. After a time, I felt as if I was never enough.

I began to compensate by working myself half to death.

Desperation,  moved into my heart, secretly taking control of ALL of my choices.

Desperation told my dreams to pipe down. Desperation, realizing dreams could free me, from it’s grasp, set out to keep me chained in a world of disbelief.

In a way, the tornado did me a service in having revealed the true depths of my desperation.

Fear, like I have never known, revealed itself as the terrifying monster it was.

I was left with two choices: Fight for me. Or, allow fear and desperation to control the rest of my life.

I chose me. I choose me, still!

I have had many a tough days since. Lonely days. Frightening days. Frustrating days. Disappointing days.

Yet, through them all, beloveds, I have found joy. I have found peace. I have found hope. I have found self love. I have found laughter. I have found light.

I am no longer afraid of what I may lose. I am too damned busy pursuing my dreams!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Let’s go!!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Even when they don’t understand. Even when you don’t understand.

Keep loving folk.

Even when they don’t understand you. Even when you don’t understand them.

Keep reaching out.

Even when they don’t understand your try. Even when you don’t understand their lack of understanding.

Keep caring about folk.

Even when they don’t understand why you care “for no reason”. Even when you don’t understand why they don’t understand that you “just care”.

There are days, beloveds, when I want to leave the 🌎 to its own devices. Folk see ulterior motives in everything. Or, they think you think ill of them for no reason. Smh.

I was raised to take folk at face value. The advent of social media has raised a generation of folk who hide behind personas and being perceived as influencers and wellbeing gurus.😥😳

Whatever happened to folk just BEING. Just you. Just me. Just us. Flawed, yet lovable.

None of us are perfect. Since when did we all have to be? We don’t. I do one to two dumb things daily. It keeps me grounded.🥰🧓

Be encouraged, beloveds. Get off the hamster wheel and stop trying to drape yourself in whatever is currently trending on TikTok. You are wonderful as you are. Sometimes dumb and all.

I accept my dumb as well as my goodness. We are all many things at once. We work our own last nerves at times. That’s okay.

Even when they don’t understand. Even when you don’t understand…

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I am trying to convey something but my heart is just too sad for so many folk who have fallen for the lie they are not enough without adornment. 😥🌎

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I forgot to be afraid.

My dreams called me this morning.

I answered.

I forgot to be afraid.

I forgot to be old.

I forgot I was broke.

I forgot about discouragement.

I forgot to despair.

My dreams are calling me. I must hurry…

refusing to give up,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I gave myself a day to be sad. This morning, I made sad go get me some ☕ coffee. I have much too much to do.

Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Listen: Are you willing to listen to act right?

I have been working on listening.

This is not always easy. As it turns out, feels do NOT want to be told what to do!

Feels, more often than not, love to justify why they have ALWAYS felt the way they have felt. Feels rarely wish to take other things into account.

Worse, feels tend to feel THEIR feels are the most important. In addition, feels quite often feel the need to demand the fielty of family and friends. Without feeling the need to return the favor. Feels feeling are paramount.

I am making sure my feels don’t run me or speak for my life. Yes, I take my feels into account. They ARE important. Still, they can not be the only factor, the determining factor when interacting with others.

We must take each other’s thoughts, feelings, feedback into account and come out with an acceptable dish. We may not always like the dish but we ought have enjoyed the preparation, the camaraderie, the discourse had whilst coming up with the meal(conversation).

I wish my mom were around for a good mini argument. Kobe or Lebron? Mahomes or Allen? French Vanilla or Hazelnut.

I am in a yakking mood lately. Just looking to learn from as many cultures as I can get my hand on. I just so happened to come across a micro baker who is sharing about starting a micro bakery from home. Who knew?! I enjoy cooking…hhmmm.

Have an amazing day.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!