Tag: lifestyle

Just give them you, God said to me.

For weeks, months really, I have been struggling to figure out HOW to start again.

There is so much I want to share. There is much I would love to say.

The trouble has come in the HOW. Not so much the what of things.

I spent the day drinking coffee and dreaming of the day where I could freely share ME and encourage a billion folk.

I paced the floor. Okay, I paced in my mind as the floor needs to be vacuumed and I am trying to pretend it’s not there.

Anywho, I pondered. I wondered aloud.

Out of the blue, God tapped me on the shoulder and whispered:

“Just give them you”.

Four words. Stopped me in my tracks.

Suddenly, all kinds of silly slogans came to my mind. Dumb thoughts I have been trying to squish down as who would seek out THAT?!😳

Apparently, God thinks MY that is what is required just now. Wow!

I had ALWAYS tried to keep my silly out of my writing. I enjoy phrasing things in weird ways that makes no sense whilst making all the sense in the world.

I enjoy removing commas for the sheer pleasure of breaking rules that were written by a somebody therefore anybody can rewrite or write over them. Whew!

I guess God just wants me to be…ME.

ME!

The me that was never asked out. The me that never went to prom. The me that never had kids. The me that will never be called grandma by blood relatives.

Yet, this me has been one that has cared for many, many others through being Certified Nurses Assistant caring for the elderly. A Youth Worker who cared for kids who had been physically, sexually and emotionally abused.

A me who has been a Correctional Officer. A me who spent more than 14 years happily assisting customers and stores.

A me who tells terrible jokes. A me who longs for unity with all. A me who enjoys football. A me who enjoys watching cooking shows from folks all over the world.

A me that I love. Now. I didn’t used to love me. I had learned to listen to all the lies that I was unworthy, not worth it and not worth while.

I was. I am. I always will be. So are you, beloveds.

I am an encourager. I am an intercessor. I am a goof. I am God’s Goofhead. As it should be.

It took years to learn HOW to love me some me. I endeavour to spend the rest of my life loving others and shouting love from the rooftops.

Ah, beloveds, if God spared me from that tornado to be ME, let me be me and say:

You are worth it.

You are worthy.

You are worth while.

Oh, that I could walk each and every one of you home!

I love you. I hope the best for you. I wish I could take away your every hurt. I wish that I could meet your every need.

Ah, God, folk need to be loved. They need Your Love. Love them. Be there for them. Let them know they CAN. Let them know they WILL!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I’m walking you home in my heart!

Keep on being YOU, beloveds. This world needs what only YOU can give it.

We are in some mighty dark times. Only love will see us through. It will. In the meantime, be encouraged. I’m praying for us all. Even for those who think me the fool. I am. A fool for Christ.🤣❤🥰🙏🎤

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Walk me home.

Nuff said.
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

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

I love you. Doing my best to make sure you get home okay, beloveds. Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Priceless things.

Priceless things:

Open arms.

A shoulder to lean on.

A listening ear.

A warm hug.

I could use some priceless things today.

Could you?

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I find my heart to full of sad to finish this note. Folk are so busy tearing up the world and each other in search of what they think are priceless things.

They trample over hearts for money. They would sell their souls for clicks and likes. Ah, that the world only knew the beauty of priceless things. I have many priceless things to give but few to give them to. Ah, God. What do I do with this love?

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Give yourself away.

Give yourself away.

Your smile.

Your style.

Your laughter.

Your love.

Give yourself away.

Your heart.

Your heartaches.

Your heart breaks.

Give yourself away.

Your tenacity.

Your truth.

Your never-ending youth.

Give yourself away.

You are priceless.

You are precious.

You are infinitely loved.

Give yourself away.

This world needs the unique gift called YOU.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: You are more special than you know, beloveds. Life is short. Give yourself away.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Doubt came to visit me. I made it do the laundry.

Doubt came to visit me. I made it do the laundry.

I no longer entertain doubt, beloveds.

As soon as doubt stops by, I give it something to do. I don’t waste time wondering if I can. I get to doing something.

Doubt will always come calling when you endeavour to do something with your life.

When doubt stops round, beloveds, give it something to do.

Work on your dream.

Exercise.

Read.

Write.

Sing.

Visit someone who could use some company.

Do the neighbor’s yard.

Phone a friend.

Do NOT entertain doubt/fear. All that does is multiply them and imprisons you.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Don’t let your percieved limitations limit you. Find a way. Make a way. Show us the way. You know more than you give yourself credit for. We all NEED your you! As only YOU can be. Come on out of hiding and allow the world to experience the great like known as you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Real talk: There will ALWAYS be a THIS.

Real talk, beloveds. There will ALWAYS be a THIS.

There will always be something to overcome. It’s called life being life.

The older I grow, the more I realize that lamenting THIS. THAT and the OTHER THING, really is a huge waste of life and time.

Best to just deal with them. Head on. With integrity. Then, keep it moving.

Does it really matter whose fault it was? Not really. He messed up. You messed up. They messed up. We messed up.

Let’s fix our messes and decide to stop being so messy. We all have opinions about everything, it seems. In my opinion, I think we should all take a seat, shut up, and listen to someone.

Whatever you are currently fighting/struggling/dealing with, beloveds, remember you are much more than your struggles.

Your struggles do not define you. Your struggles do not signal how things shall be. Your struggles are just that: Struggles. Period.

Your struggles do not mean you will always struggle. You will have another THIS to decide what to do with after you have dealt with THAT…lol.

Trying to figure out why THIS or THAT happened is like trying to figure out why Cassandra can not figure out how to make a decent pan of brownies(more on THAT saga soon…smh).

I was sooooooooo angry 😡 with life after the tornado 🌪.

HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN TO ME FOR NO REASON?! I’M A GOOD PERSON! I WORK HARD. I CARE ABOUT THE WORLD. HOW COULD YOU HAVE ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN TO ME?!!!

I’m no longer angry. I don’t have time to be. I still have some sad days. I can’t be 💯 with my friends and family and admit how terribly hurt I was and am to have to go through this alone and at my age.

I don’t want to have to deal with THIS. Not now. I would have rather kept dealing with THAT other thing I thought was so terribly hard.

I’m trying to find some uplifting words in here. Somewhere. Maybe that’s the whole point: There will ALWAYS be a THIS. And, THIS may never make sense or be pleasant.

That said, we CAN make it through THIS. Whatever THIS may be.

Be encouraged. You got this. As do I.

hanging in there with you,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: This too shall pass. No matter what you are facing, KNOW you shall get through THIS.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

What the what?!🤯😤

What?

WHAT!!!!?

OMG, WWWWWWHHHHHYYYY?!!!

*stamps foot*….!!!

Wheeewwww!

Scuze me, beloveds, I am trying to get some act right so I can turn my DAMNED 🍋 LEMONS INTO UPLIFTING LEMONADE FOR YOU. OMG!!!

*Cassandra stops 😡 pouting long enough to tell her mournful, terribly sad and awfully what in the fresh hell tale*.

*Cassandra thinks she is being really dramatic about this*

*Cassandra becomes angry with reasonable Cassandra, and they get into a terribly entertaining fight*

*Tired of fighting, Cassandra shares her sad, sad, terrible tale*:

I was in the mood for 🥣 cereal. Golden Grahams to be precise. I decided to do an emergency order and ordered some cereal, some 🥪 sandwich fixings and odds and ends and breathlessly awaited my order.

A while later, the 🚪 doorbell rings. Okay, I don’t have a doorbell, and they left the order without knocking, but still…

I fling the door open to find everything but the Golden Grahams!!! Or, so I thought.

I call the store. Calmly 😡 mad. The store was NOT helpful. Rude, in fact.

I had to tell act right to STAY on the high road. In truth, I dearly wanted to use the low road. I chose the high road.

I told myself to just make sandwiches 🥪 after remembering the sandwich fixings.

Dramatically, I pulled out turkey, cheese, and reach for the buns, and there were no buns!! They forgot the buns and canned goods as well!!!! OMG!!!

I wanted to act a fool. I didn’t. In the end, I found some old buns and made some sandwiches. I ordered more cereal. I got on with my life.

Life is short, beloveds. Things happen. Inconvenient things. Frustrating things. Things that will make the way a bit longer.

That’s okay. Roll with the punches. Go another way. Try something different. Make a new plan. Refurbish the old one.

I used this situation to make ME better. I chose not to be angry with the driver. I chose not to be angry with the store. I chose not to be angry.

I chose to laugh. I chose to get on with my evening. In the past, I would have spent the rest of the evening stewing. I would have gone to bed hungry. I would have played the martyr and not fixed something else to eat.

I am growing. Slowly. I am learning. Slowly. I am hungry…lol.

I’m fixing to enjoy some sammiches. Who wants to join me?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: It’s not what happens to us that counts. It’s what happens IN us as we choose to respond in ways that uplifts us and others. Keep on being the awesome folk you are. I love me some you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Choose: Rest or worry?

Choose.

Rest or worry.

Choose.

Love or apathy.

Choose.

Try or give up.

Choose.

Laugh or despair.

Choose.

Move forward or look behind.

I choose to rest. I choose to love. I choose to try. I choose to laugh.

What do YOU choose, beloveds?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life is what YOU make it. Make your life an amazing one. Love someone. Starting with you. I love you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Make this world regret dismissing you.

Ah, beloveds.

I see you!

Ah, beloveds. I see the greatness just waiting to be unleashed within you!

This IS your time!

THIS is your moment!

Seize it!

Make this world regret dismissing you.

How?

You tell me!!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Can you feel it, beloveds? Can you feel the earth quaking in fear of YOUR greatness set to be unleashed within and upon it!

Let’s go!!!!!

Shine your light.

Stand up.

Show up.

Show out!

There is no way in hell any of us are going to allow our world to disintegrate into a hopeless mess with our consent!

There is too much good in us. Start kicking darkness in the uh-oh! Let’s go, people!

We NEED one another. ALL of us. We shall NOT be moved!!!

Get out there and love as many folk as you can. Especially the especially hard headed ones. Smh.



One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

You are NOT on the outside looking in. LIVE!

You are NOT on the outside looking in. LIVE!

I used to feel as though I didn’t belong.

I did.

I used to think I would never be loved.

I AM loved.

I used to believe I was alone.

I am NOT alone.

It’s easy to FEEL left out. This 🌎 is a big place. Yet, it’s smaller than any of us know.

I have been asking God and Life WHY I was spared from the 🌪 tornado that was trying desperately to destroy everything around me? I have not been given that answer.

Maybe, just maybe, I was left here to keep sharing this ridiculous blog, with MY stupid words with whomever is bored/ridiculous enough to swing by and be told they are loved…by a stranger?!😳🤔

Until I find out why, beloveds, I am going to keep on doing and being my why. Why? Because someone needs to KNOW they are loved and not alone.

SOMEONE needs to hold the door 🚪 open and welcome folk to come in.

Come on in, beloveds. LIVE! Life is waiting for YOU. Life is waiting to act on your behalf.

What are you dreaming of? What do you hope to do? Get started. Today. You can do it. You CAN. You WILL!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I’m 56 and FINALLY launching out. Who is coming with me? Let’s go!!

Stop taking yourself so lightly. Stop dismissing your gifts. Stop dismissing the still, small voice that is whispering for you to try. Just try.

You were and are not on the outside looking in. Dive in. Enjoy your life. Embrace the hard.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!