A message from Ed Bacon: I am writing with the sad news that our friend, sister and former ASC staff colleague Toi Perkins-Prince died early this morning. I want to invite you to pray with me. To give thanks for Toi’s brilliant, creative and joyful life. And for strength and comfort for those who grieve – especially her husband Sam and daughter Kai. And I want to share Sam’s own tribute to his “own True Love:” At 0:53, on May 22nd, 2014, our dear friend and my True Love, Toi Perkins-Prince, breathed her last breath, returning to the Love from which she was born into this world - the Love she embodied with fullness and grace in this life and continues to embody beyond it. We appreciate your continued prayers and support; the loss indeed weighs heavy on our hearts. And yet, as anyone who has been graced by Tois presence can attest, what we have gained from knowing her far outweighs any weight her death and loss may carry. A beacon of love, life, creativity, elegance, humility, and grace, Tois legacy will never die; she now lives Eternally in our hearts and beyond, finally at peace with the One in whom we live and move and have our being; the One from whom all blessings flow; the One in whom everything and everyone belongs. More information will be posted in the hours and/or days to come about how you can continue to commemorate Toi, both through memorials and practical support of the Perkins-Prince Family. In the meanwhile (and in typical Sam fashion, which Toi did love), I leave you with a quote that has been holding all of us - Toi included - over the past few months and though this sacred passage: Does death possess a beauty that we - who fear death, who find it ugly and obscene - cannot see? How shall we understand autumns testimony that death and elegance go hand in hand? ... In the visible world of nature, a great truth is concealed in plain sight: diminishment and beauty, darkness and light, death and life are not opposites. They are held together in the paradox of hidden wholeness. In a paradox, opposites do not negate each - they cohere in mysterious unity at the heart of reality. Deeper still, they need each other for health, as my body needs to breathe in as well as breathe out. ~Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak (p. 99)
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 19:58:53 +0000
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