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The Jennie Allen Podcast

S6: 20 - The Other Side of Grief with Angie Smith

The Jennie Allen Podcast

Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.96.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

If you have walked through the loss of a child or a season of suffering, the grief can sneak up on you when you least expect it. I pray this conversation helps you believe that you are not alone in your sadness and loss and doubt. Find Angie's book about the intersection of grief and joy and the story of her daughter Audrey's life here: https://www.amazon.com/Will-Carry-You-Sacred-Dance/dp/080546428X/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2FJEEAPFO5RMY&dchild=1&keywords=angie+smith&qid=1605206697&sprefix=angie+s%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-3 Download the Life Inventory here: jennieallen.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast. Angie, I'm so glad you're here today. I'm a little sad that we're not able to just be hanging out together and catching up because I do miss you.

0:20.0

So, but we're going to talk about some stories that I'm familiar with but I bet not everybody listening is so can you take us back to Audrey's pregnancy and talk a little bit about your story from that season.

0:36.2

It was 12 years ago which is really hard to believe.

0:38.6

We were talking about that the other day, but the basic story is that I was pregnant with my daughter, Audrey.

0:45.0

She would have been our fourth daughter and we found out during the pregnancy just like at a regular at our 20-week

0:51.2

ultrasound that she had many issues that made her incompatible

0:56.7

of life in the term that they used and we ended up carrying her for several more weeks until she was past viability.

1:05.6

We just want to give her a shot, you know, even though we were just praying for a miracle.

1:09.4

We did not get the miracle that we really wanted, but she lived for about two and a half hours and it

1:15.5

was absolutely one of the hardest times of my life but she's still so much part of our family I feel like. so in fact all the little neighborhood girls are

1:24.7

designing they call us the Sleverts or something they somehow combined Oliver the

1:29.5

Sneeverks for families they've confined our last name.

1:33.2

Oh, that's adorable.

1:34.2

Mansion online for us to all, like a compound for us to all live in a giant house and

1:38.9

they gave Audrey a room.

1:40.3

I know, it's killed me. So yeah, it's killed me so yeah it's still I mean it's so tender now but yeah it's

1:48.3

really beautiful to see how much other people remember her include include her.

1:53.0

So let's talk about that, that's,

1:56.0

one of my good, good friends just walked through this,

1:58.0

and I was actually there with her the day that her baby died,

2:02.0

and it was just you know and it reminded me of a view because I feel like

2:09.7

you have given so many people a picture into something that is often private and often you know not

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