by Jean Wilund | Sep 5, 2016 | Blog, Popular Posts
Dear Younger Me, When you’re eight years old, you’re going to help be helping Dad clean out the old camper to sell it. He’s going to tell you to take out the wooden board stored in the upper cabinet. Don’t do it! Don’t open the...
by Jean Wilund | Sep 3, 2016 | Blog
This may be the year. College Football has officially kicked off, and this may be the year that . . . I rejoice whether my team wins or loses, . . . I can watch an entire game without fretting, . . . and I jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Yes, I know. The last...
by Jean Wilund | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog
Surrender, Pray, Rest Surrender, Pray, Rest is my motto for life and parenting. Surrender opens our ears to God. Prayer opens our communication with God. Rest opens God’s blessings on us through faith. When I asked Edie Melson, author of While My Child is Away:...
by Jean Wilund | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog
Parenting Will Make You Cry Parenting will make you cry — tears of sorrow and tears of laughter. Edie Melson, author of While My Child is Away: Prayers for When We Are Apart, and her husband try to look at life through the lens of laughter. This mindset made a...
by Jean Wilund | Aug 17, 2016 | Blog
Have you fallen for the myth of perfect parenting? I did. But not for long. After I woke up to the truth, I sank into a pit of despair, thinking I’m the reason my kids will go broke on therapy! Mercifully, God rescued me from that pit. The maddening myth of...
by Jean Wilund | Aug 16, 2016 | Blog
Imagine sitting across from two of your kids as they describe waking up, floating in a river hours after having been struck by lightning and blown out of their kayaks. Edie Melson lived that nightmare. Read the excerpt here if you missed yesterday’s post....