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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Below is the sweet, inspired song written by Angie Smith as she was carrying her child still, even as she was finding out her child would not live for very long, if at all, once she was born. Heartbreaking yet hope-filled story of Angie and Todd and baby Audrey Caroline follows the song below. Thank you to Todd and Angie for sharing your story.
I Will Carry You
(Audrey's Song)
Selah
There were photographs I wanted to take
Things I wanted to show you
Sing sweet lullabies
Wipe your teary eyes
Who could love you like this?
People say that I am brave but I'm not
Truth is I'm barely hanging on
There's a greater story
Written long before me
Because He loves you like this
I will carry you
while your heart beats here
Long beyond the empty cradle
through the coming years
I will carry you
all my life
I will praise the One who's chosen me
to carry you
Such a short time,
such a long road
All this madness
but I know
that the silence
has brought me to His voice
and He said,
"I've shown her photographs of time beginning
Walked her through the parted sea
Angel lullabies
No more teary eyes
Who could love her like this?
I will carry you
While your heart beats here
Long beyond the empty cradle
Through the coming years
I will carry you
All your life
I will praise the One who's chosen me
to carry you
Testimony of
Todd and Angie Smith
I Will Carry You:
The Sacred Dance of Grief and Joy
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
~Psalm 147: 3
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
My amazing friend/mother-in-grief Danielle (@DanielleHelms on Twitter) sent me the following song this week on Twitter; it so ministered to my heart, I wanted to post it here for you to be ministered to as well.
The following transcript is of Todd Smith, the male lead singer for Selah. He is the husband of Angie Smith, a fellow grieving-mother as well as a fellow-blogger. As Todd mentions here, he and Angie lost their baby Audrey Caroline on April 7, 2008...
Also, Angie has written a book - I Will Carry You: The Sacred Dance of Grief and Joy - about the experience. Angie's blog is "Bring the Rain."
So, to introduce this wonderful song, here's the grieving-father, Todd:
Hey we're Selah, and we have a new album coming out called, "You Deliver Me." It's coming out this summer. and many of the songs on this CD are very personal to us. We have a lot of hymns, but a couple of originals, and this one in particular was written by some friends of mine.
Over this past year, I lost my daughter, and my sister Nicol who used to be in Selah, she also lost her son within about a six-week period, and so it's just been a very, very difficult year, just with a lot of ups and downs. And, you get to the point where you have to make a choice,
Are you going to trust in God? Are you gonna trust that He is good, even when things don't make any sense?
That's something we've really struggled with, my wife and I, Nicole and her husband... There are some days where things are great, and then there's a lot of days where things are just horrible. And a friend of mine - we'd finished recording everything - this song was not supposed to be on the record - ...Chad Cates and Tony Wood wrote this song and I had a writing session with them, and Chad said, "Hey just listen to this song..."
And, I was like - Great... you know, we'd listened to 50 million songs, and we were done, we were over it - And he played it for me, and just immediately it just struck me because of where my wife and I are at, and my whole family, what we've been going through...
And so I sent it off to Amy and to Allen, and Amy emailed back the next day, "We've gotta put this (song) on the c.d." And basically, to sum it up it's just a reminder
When we don't know what is going on, when we don't know why God allows things, or why He even does things, someday He IS going to make everything right and He's going to redeem everything that's been unredeemed...
and that's the title of this track...
Unredeemed
from album
"You Deliver Me"
written by
Chad Cates, Tony Wood, Brian David Petak
by Selah
The cruelest world
The coldest heart
The deepest wound
The endless dark
The lonely ache
The burning tears
The bitter nights
The wasted years
Life breaks and falls apart
But we know these are
Places where grace is soon to be so amazing
It may be unfulfilled
It may be unrestored
But when anything that's shattered is laid before the Lord
Just watch and see
It will not be unredeemed
For every choice that led to shame
And all the love that never came
For every vow that someone broke
And every lie that gave up hope
We live in the shadow of the fall
But the cross says these are all
Places where grace is soon to be so amazing
It may be unfulfilled
It may be unrestored
But when anything that's shattered is laid before the Lord
Just watch and see
It will not be unredeemed
Oh he will wipe every tear
It will not be unredeemed!
Places where grace is soon to be so amazing
It may be unfulfilled
It may be unrestored
But you never know the miracle the Father has in store
Just watch and see
It will not be...
Just watch and see
It will not be...
unredeemed
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He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more...crying or pain.
~Revelation 21:4
My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to You –
I, whom you have redeemed.
~Psalms 71:23
In Your unfailing love You will lead the people You have redeemed.
~Exodus 15:13
Song: Unredeemed on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhOSspNj84w
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