Welcome! I am Angie B. Prince, child of God, wife of Tommy, mother of 3, Grief and Trauma Life Coach, Psychotherapist, and Mother Grieving. On 8/2/2006, our precious 19-yr-old daughter Merry Katherine was killed along w/ 2 other teens via vehicular manslaughter. Here I share as we agonizingly process our grief and trauma. Email: MotherGrieving(at)gmail(dot)com. Coaching (Tommy or Angie): Call 865-548-4four3four / Counseling (Angie in TN) 865-604-9nine9two. I pray God will minister to you here.
Welcome! I am Angie B. Prince, child of God, wife of Tommy, mother of 3, psychotherapist and Mother Grieving.
Tommy and I met in graduate school in Atlanta, then married in 1979 and started a Christian Counseling/Coaching practice in Knoxville, TN where we still live. We have 1 daughter Merry Katherine, forever-19 in Heaven, 2 sons, Nathan (age 34) (wife Ashley), and Rollin (age 37) (wife Stephanie), and two granddaughters, Ellie and Penny.
In this blog, we process our grief over our Merry Katherine who was killed along with two other teens in a brutal car crash while on the way to the beach on 8/2/2006 (two teens survived). Having lost our daughter suddenly and violently on the cusp of launching her into adulthood, we were thrown into Complicated and Traumatic Grief. We share here our agonizing process of wading through the multiple twists and turns of shattered assumptions, challenged faith, traumatized body-soul-and-spirts, and devastated hearts. May our grief touch some of your own pain as we walk through this difficult but sacred ground together.
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Showing posts with label Poem about the Death of My Child. Show all posts
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I was starting to read my new novel from the library early this morning when I could not sleep. But first I read the preface poem; it stopped me in my tracks, and I knew I had to finish William Blake's poem…
The first verse below is the poem by William Blake from Auguries of Innocence that prefaced my book Afterwards by brilliant author Rosamund Lupton whose prose itself reads more like poetry. The second two verses are mine. May you enjoy, and better yet, may you be ministered to by God's love that ever buttresses our hearts amidst our deep grief…
To See God's Love…
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
To see God's love in the life of a man
And His Heaven in the face of a child,
Watch the tiny bird held in the palm of His hand,
And the delight of love light up in the face of the man's grandchild.
To see God's love for mine and your child,
Look at the life that to you was born;
Though we may not see them for quite a long while,
He holds them There for us till our night breaks through to Morn.
Picture, thanks to "Angels on Loan" Poem - Verse One, by William Blake from Auguries of Innocence, as quoted in Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton Poem - Verses One and Two - To See God's Love - Angie Bennett Prince - July 13, 2012
You blessed me so deeply with th' birth of each child;
Can I not trust th' One who in Love reconciled
Their sweet hearts to You, so they'd forever live,
You who from merciful love, Your Own Son did give?
O Loving God, what mercy You did bear,
Loving our children with all Your heart's care:
Giving up Your Son that we might live.
Such love constrains me, my whole life to give...
Give me Your strength to face each painful day,
For though I see glimpses of Your love here,
The Vile One doth rule so wickedly here,
Until Your world shall be restored on That Day.
Give me Your sustenance to carry on,
Bearing Your light where Darkness is shown.
You have Your plan for me while I'm here;
Help me be faithful... though Death, my heart, e'er doth sear.
And thank You Lord, that You gave Your All,
For my child t' be with You at Your loving call.
From here, I see as through a glass darkly,
From There, You see beyond this world starkly...
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For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
~John 3:16 (New Living Translation, 2007)
Because God's children are human beings--made of flesh and blood--the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death.
~Hebrews 2:14 (New Living Translation, 2007)
(Christ) is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you. For to be sure, He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. Likewise, we are weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him to serve you.
~2 Corinthians 13:3b-4 (New International Version)
The time for judging this world has come, when Satan, the ruler of this world, will be cast out.
~John 12:31 (New Living Translation, 2007)
For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.
~1 Corinthians 13:12 (Bible in Basic English)
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
~2 Corinthians 12:79-10 (New International Version)
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
~2 Corinthians 1:3 (New International Version)
*Capitalizations of pronouns representing God, mine
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