Spiritual, but...
At a dinner party I met a woman who described the good work environment she finds with her new employer. Not only was it unexpected but far exceeded what she could have expected. Through one experience she herself was afforded an opportunity to get past the pain of facing another Christmas season with the memories of her daughter who died in an accident in a past December. This lady had proposed that the company modify its Christmas gift exchange, making it instead a gift collection for the Adopt a Family program. The company did. Seeing the good will of the new workplace, in working the project through, and having the companies trust and support to lead it, this lady also found new desire for the joyful reminders of Christmas, seeing the joy more than the pain. For the first time in years she experienced more joy than loss at Christmas time, still loving her lost daughter. When the lady reached the end of recounting this she said, “It was spiritual.”...