by Cassandra Spellman | May 5, 2023 | Book Reviews, Death
But everything was not the way it should be. There was such a thing as too much power. And there would be a terrible price to pay if people found out he had it. If you could bring someone who died back to life … would you? My brother died in 2019. I miss the way he...
by Cassandra Spellman | Apr 11, 2023 | Friendship, Generosity
For many years I operated under an ideology summarized by the mantra, “as long as my side of the street is clean.” In other words, other people will make poor choices, sin, and do wrong. But that shouldn’t affect me as long as I make sure I am not doing the same. The...
by Cassandra Spellman | Mar 11, 2023 | Family, Suffering
“Twelve years ago I was blessed with cancer.” I heard this powerful statement from a speaker during an online conference I recently attended. I am still struck by her choice of words. Blessed with cancer? It seems almost like an oxymoron. Yet, during this season of...
by Cassandra Spellman | Feb 13, 2023 | Family
There is a most beautiful, perfect, and exquisite plan for love, specifically the life-giving love between a husband and wife. Celebrating St. Valentine’s Day, a day all about love, is a good opportunity for us to reflect on the free, total, fruitful, and faithful...
by Cassandra Spellman | Feb 5, 2023 | Book Reviews
The assault was not going to stop at matters of discipline; it was dogma that was aimed at, and, worse even than that, the foundation on which dogma rested. It was not an affair of Religious Houses, or even of morality; there was concerned the very Rock itself on...