When haters try to give you their love, show them the door.🚪
Nuff said. Stop wasting your life on what clowns have to say.
We have much toooooooooooo much to do, beloveds. Don’t waste a second of 2025 on the haters. They have nothing better to do because they have nothing to do. We got thangs to do, remember?
doing thangs with you, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: There will ALWAYS be folk who will tell you what you can never have, where you can and can not go, what you can or can not do. Let them talk. You are much too busy to listen.
Above all, beloveds, don’t EVER add your voice to those of the naysayers. We are often our biggest critics, aren’t we?
Champion yourself. Celebrate your try. Don’t worry about the outcome. Enjoy playing in the game. Salute the winner. Even if it’s not you!
We only get this ONE life. LIVE. I love me some you. Am sure some may wonder why I tell complete strangers that I love them. You are NOT strangers to me. You are my brothers. You are my sisters. I love you. So does He.
Don’t wait til courage finds you. It may never come for you. Speak anyway. Just speak. Your words may be the very thing I need, that others need, to make it through a tough day.
Be encouraged.
You got this.
Speak to us.
We ARE listening.
Whether folk will heed your message is not on you. Speak…
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: This is a big world, and it’s easy to feel lost or small in it. Use your voice to be the fulcrum the world needs. Use your voice as the lever that can change everything. A tiny lever can shift mighty things.
The words you have been seeking, to change your life may well be your own. You’ll never know unless you speak. Neither will I.
Speak. Your audience is listening. What do YOU have to say?
In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He.
Someone is forever trying to write my story. They are forever trying to choose the hero and the villain.
They tell me where I can not go. They let me know what things I will never accomplish.
I’m changing the narrative. I’m choosing to be the one to tell my own story. that no longer allow fear or anger or doubt to tell my story for me. I no longer allow my finances or my age or my race or my gender to tell my story. These things are but characters for me to use at my discretion.
I decide who gets on stage. I decide who gets to speak and when. I get to determine the path of my story. I can change the story anytime I choose to. I can begin a new tale. Or I can revamp the one I am currently telling. It’s up to me.
I have been enjoying the NFL playoffs. It has been really sad how some players are being talked about. Some are being called heroes. Others are being called goats and not in a good way. The word failure has been tossed about liberally.
It makes me sad the way the world now views people’s efforts. Folk are viewed as failures or successes. The try is of no consequence. The effort appears to be of no consequence.
I’m praying that we can all get back to caring about one another and embracing each other’s try. I’m tired of this cancer culture which wants to throw out someone because of mistakes. What happened to empathy, compassion and understanding? None of us are perfect. We all are doing the best we know how.
You can change your narrative. You don’t have to accept the narrative that is being placed upon your life. Speak life over your circumstances. Speak joy over your situations. Tell the naysayers to shut up.
Be sure to encourage one another. and to encourage them to change their narrative if they need to. We got this. I really do believe that people are good at heart. They’re just too many people who are giving into false narratives, into divisive rhetorics, and to chasing clicks and being part of clickbait. I choose not to be one of those.
I’m not trying to be an influencer. I’m just choosing to use my influence for good. However, much influence I have, I choose to use that to love the world as best as I can. Speaking of which, I love you.
Have an amazing day. Make 2025 amazing.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: What are you telling yourself about your dreams? Make sure you are watering your dreams with positivity. Leave the hate to the haters. You have much too much to do. Be encouraged. You should have the things you’re striving for. You may also receive much more than you had initially hoped for. You’ll never know unless you try. Get going. The day grows short.
Folk have been on Tik Tok and other mediums crying since the president of the United States rescinded the 1965 Civil Rights Act, along with gutting other programs and freezing federal jobs.
As a woman, a black woman, these measures are devastating, in reality, and not just in the abstract.
That being said, beloveds, I absolutely REFUSE to take up a mantle of fear, anger and hopelessness.
I CHOOSE to continue to shine my light.
I CHOOSE to continue to encourage ALL of my brothers and sisters to keep looking UP, to keep moving FORWARD, to keep loving one another. Even folk who don’t look like you or me. Especially love them.
Ah, beloveds, these times are up to US. We are NOT helpless. We are NOT hopeless.
If you are a TRUE Christian, you know that God is STILL on the throne. HE will be about being about business.
If you are not, your life STILL has an impact. If you live in America, WE make up the USA. WE, each of us, are more than a vote. We have a voice. We can act. We can choose. We can live. We can love. We can fight for one another.
To that end I say “be encouraged”. This life is short. Focus on those things that matter. Do what you can. Love as many folk as you can.
One thing we are NOT going to do, beloveds, is to give up hope. Faith WILL see us through these times.
Things are happening. All over the world. We all must make the choice of how WE are going to conduct ourselves and our business.
As for me and mine, I choose YOU. I choose to pray for you. I choose to rejoice with you. I choose to love you. I choose to root for you. I choose…
We SHALL overcome. Until then, we fight on.
Be encouraged. Get rid of the social media that is doing NOTHING but pumping poison in your spirit. Stick to that which uplifts your soul. Like me, eh?
I had to fight with discouragement again today. I told it to shut up and go back to the hell from whence it came.
Then, I rose. Then, I made coffee. Then, I hopped on here to send some love to someone in need.
What are YOU going to do?
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: We got this. Everything will be alright. It will….
NOTHING, electronically, wants to work today. I have wanted to scream, in 😤 frustration. I have made the choice not to.
I made myself:
Make a cup of ☕ coffee.
Turn on some uplifting music.
Encourage someone.
After a tune, a sip, a tap of the foot to the tunes, I found my humor again.
Life is much too short to be wasted pouting over temporary delays.
Do NOT allow temporary 😤 frustrations to keep you from having a fantastic day. I shall be saying extra prayers for us all. Make 2025 spectacular. Starting with today.
Stop wasting time trying to convince your haters, your doubters, and the world that you can. They don’t/won’t believe in you.
You CAN.
You WILL.
Keep moving FORWARD.
Keep looking UP.
Keeping standing ten toes down.
Keep standing on FAITH.
Keep the faith.
You can’t prove a negative. Stop trying.
Do your best. BE your best. The rest WILL come out in the wash.
2025 has sooooooooooooooo much in store for you. Scoop out as many moments as you can. Squeeze every ounce of love, joy, peace, and laughter from these moments. Embrace every second from these moments.
Be encouraged. Now, get out there and LIVE.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: What do you dream of? I DARE you to try and make it happen. Ready. Set. Let’s go!!
The greatest lesson I have learned from the 🌪 tornado is that: God has my back. I am loved. I am NOT alone. I do NOT have to fear the future. I do NOT have to fear MY future. I CAN. I WILL.
What have you and are you learning from your storm? These times are not here to break you. They are but footstools for your dreams to climb upon in order for you to reach higher and stretch f
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