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...
by Cassandra Spellman | Jan 16, 2023 | About the Authors, Writing
One of my resolutions for 2022 was for Chris and me to finish a full draft of the final book in The Shadows of Freedom trilogy. Well, New Year’s Eve found us rewriting some aspects of the last scene. It got down to the wire, but we made it: we finished the full draft...
by Cassandra Spellman | Jan 1, 2023 | About the Authors, Family
In the top drawer of my desk, which is located in our dining room, sits a couple of sheets. They are worn and crumbled from much use. One reads at the top: RESOLUTIONS 2021. The next: RESOLUTIONS 2022. And we have just added a new sheet with the words—I’m sure you’ve...