This Saturday I spent most of my day in a workshop/seminar called a Different Road- for divorced and separated people. The day started great with breakfast and mingling to get to know the seminar participants. There is something so comforting about being in a room with people who share the same pain with you. As we settled into the room in where the teaching would occur it became evident very quickly how some where in such dispair and it broke my heart as well as others with the full knowledge of knowing what that pain feels like. The best part was seeing that at the conclusion we shared many laughs over dinner at Montanas restaurant. The majority of the paricipants in the seminar are not regular church attenders but we were all able to receive wisdom in dealing with the pain and hear how we are spiritual beings who need spiritual balance that was found in Jesus as the group leader shared. The workshop may of been for a day but the participants have the option to join a support group on Tuesday nights to dig deeper into the curriculum. As I currently attend "Just Me and the Kids" on Tuesdays I will have to wait till the new year to join them, and I am really looking forward to that. The people responsible for setting this up are prior participants and they shared how the group has become a family to them and I could sense how that is possible even through the different personalities, age, race or gender.
