GriefShare Ministry Impacts Kansas Town
"I've been surprised at myself ... that I'm going around saying, 'I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful.'"
(Lawrence, Kansas)—The Lawrence Journal-World has published an article on the impact GriefShare Ministries is having on some of their residents. Virginia Conard, for example, who grieved for her deceased son for forty years before her husband recently died of cancer. Following his death, she took advantage of the faith-based program which was offered at a local church. (Photo by: Nick Krug)
"This has been wonderful ... this is special and concentrated," says Conard, adding that the program let her get out of the house and out of the atmosphere of suffering that had been her world for so long.
According to the report, Conard says that after going through the program she even sees her home differently. The same place where both her husband and sister-in-law were slowly saying good-bye is now a place she greets warmly.
"I've been surprised at myself ... that I'm going around saying, 'I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful,'" Conard says. "And here I don't have my wonderful husband, but he left me in this nice home, he left me with 60 years of happy memories. He left me with three wonderful sons and three wonderful daughters-in-law. ... I am grateful."
