On Saturday nights, my wife Anne and I host a dinner that includes our 98 year old close friend Fay Ward, a beautiful woman who remains sharp as can be and who continues to live on her own. Fay realizes she has been blessed and enjoys her family, her friends and her life. But for many years, one thing in particular has bothered her.
When she retired from a Los Angeles pharmacy nearly 30 years ago, after working there for 25 years, they never held a goodbye party for her, or even gave her so much as a thank you card. When her last day of work ended, she simply left the store with no acknowledgement of her service.
The reason was that the store had recently changed owners and the new owners felt she had not worked 25 years for them. Knowing this had long been an unresolved wrong for Fay, last Saturday Anne went to a premium bakery and bought a luscious chocolate cake with raspberry and chocolate filling and had a special retirement thank you note written in chocolate frosting on top of the cake.
Then as a surprise to Fay, right after dinner, the restaurant served us all Fay's beautiful cake and we celebrated her 25 years with that pharmacy. She was deeply moved and grateful, as right on the spot she began to let go of a nearly 30 year hurt.
And two days later, we received a phone call from Fay's daughter Sheila telling us how special this celebration had been to her mother, as Sheila also thanked us.
Is there someone special in your life that has an unresolved wrong? If so, maybe you can think of a way to resolve that wrong with a loving and heartfelt gesture, a gesture that will deeply touch the heart of another, who will be deeply appreciative of your kindness.
Dick
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