If Cassie Could Sing
A Small Business Dream
Post by Hannah Holbrook. A how-to article on living out our inspired dreams.
Post by Hannah Holbrook. A how-to article on living out our inspired dreams.
Written by Carly Brandvold. A heavy-hearted post about dreams that never see the light of day.
Post by Jennifer Mehlenbacher. A little adventure perfect for someone who was not very large, full of trees, and love, and books, and God and other cool things!
One of the hardest parts of loss is seeing things finish without the person you started them with. But that shouldn’t mean despair for us. The fact that godly plans do eventually pan out should only give us hope moving forward. A certain friend’s wedding reminded me how.
So apparently the “holiday blues” are a thing. I was hopeful I could escape it. But since I got caught up anyways, I realized I needed someone to save me from this new kind of grief.
Cassie’s always wanted to see a sky lantern festival. Though she never got to, I had the chance to light a lantern for her, letting it go while the world around me sang Hallelujah.
One day, I noticed Cassie was sitting alone eating a pop-tart, so I made a comment about it. Next thing I know, I’m sitting at this high school lunch table with the funniest, cutest girl I’d ever met. At that table she made me feel like I was a better person just for being around her. She made me want to be better, then showed me how just by sharing her life. And over a couple of pop-tarts, she wound up being the first person to ever invite me to church.
If there was one thing Cassie hated, it was weddings. She used to love them until she had to have one for herself. The running joke leading up to our wedding (and for a long time afterwards) was that we had a wedding because I wanted it, not because Cassie Read more…