Web of Hope: Parents turn grief over a son’s death to healing
(Winston-Salem Journal) Strangers all over the world felt Jacob’s death. They were connected through the Web site that Heather Duckworth started through CaringBridge a few months after Jacob’s diagnosis. She wrote of doctor visits, hospital stays, endless treatments and hopeful months of remission. She posted family photos, Bible verses, personal reflections. Keyboard therapy, she called it. Thousands responded. They wrote notes of encouragement, offered prayers and shared challenges of their own in the site’s guestbook. Even after Jacob died, the posts continued. The site had become a meeting place of hope, then grief, then healing.
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23 Jun
