Jean Schmeling

JEAN SCHMELING

Jean Schmeling is a teacher who has two other children and four grandchildren. Her first child, Renee, died at thirty-one from cancer ten years ago. Jean received her B.A. in French from Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, where she was born and raised. After studying in France for a year, she received her M.A. in French Literature from the U. of Nebraska. She has taught high school French for thirty years with poetry and singing.

Since her daughter's passing, she has been writing this journal, the book Miracle Dreams from my Daughter in Heaven. It is a grieving mother's story of facing terminal cancer with her brave and tough, loving daughter......and then attempting to go on living, loving and giving. God answered her cries of anguish with dream messages from her daughter, a series of specific messages assuring her that she was in heaven, that she will be with her when she dies and that her mother needs to let go of her.

God helped Jean heal with signs and wonders of His magnificent creation. The awesome wildlife often appeared when she was praying. Jean's writing includes poetry and prayers from her heart and soul. During those ten tough years, she continued having dream messages from her daughter at significant dates and occasions. There were also dream messages from her parents. Jean assures the grieving readers that everything in the book really happened. This book will be a comfort and a guide for bereaved parents.

Weep Not, O Widow is a journal of fifty poems written from the heart and soul during that tough first year. Because the poems show the process Jean went through, the book will especially help the recently widowed. The poems contain beautiful imagery of glorious wildlife, memories of their shared life, weeping and crying out to God. With comfort and support, Jean hopes to help the grieving widow find her way back to the joy of living.

In Last Days Psalms, Jean shows how to feel the protection of God in these frightening times. The Last Days signs are increasing evil and sin, dangerous weather, collapsing economy, and terror and wars. These poems progress from fear to faith, to prayers, to acceptance of her crosses, and to a sense of peace. There are images of God's awesome creation of the universe, of the Holy Trinity, of the shaking of our earth, and of Biblical verses.

In 2015, Jean translated her book into French for Miracle Dreams for my Daughter in Heaven (Les Reves Miraculeux de ma Fille au Ciel), adding more poetry, published again by iUniverse.