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Miracle Drone

I went to a class last night for family members of mentally ill people. It was a droning meeting which was mainly some exceedingly boring reading of the handouts we had in front of us. Yep, that's what I said. They read to us. And it's not even like they were any good at reading. There were gross mispronounciations of words, huge pauses, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in their voices. Drone, drone, drone.

It was also 3.5 hours long (instead of the stated 2.5 hours) which meant that I left there at 10:30pm. Holy crap! That's been my bedtime as of late.

One of the leader's main roles was to call out the page numbers of the handout we are on. Throughout the entire evening she was self-importantly calling out things like, "Page 3.18. That's page 3.18." What a job. I wonder how long she had to train for something like that?

Having now ranted about the bad of the evening, I have to say that I really felt a peace like that's where I needed to be and I did benefit from being there. If that's not an act of God then I don't know what is. I really felt led from God to go and many of the things we discussed were right on target for what I needed. Besides the droning reading sessions, there was some interesting discussion by the others in the group and overall I really enjoyed the support of being in a group of people who are going through similar things.

The class continues through the middle of December. We'll see if God continues to want me to be there or if was just a one time thing. Either way, thanks God for the miracle of turning what could have been an utterly miserable evening into something of great benefit. Only you could accomplish something like that. You rock.