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Forget health care, the 40 hour work week, day care and workers comp. Now days certain companys are providing in-office counseling with a corporate chaplin. Between surfing the web, reorganizing the action figures on your desk and checking your email, you may have a crisis of faith. In the old days you would have to wait until Sunday morning, slide into the pew, pick up the hymnal and raise your voice..."...once was lost..." If you can't wait there's always the suicide prevention hotline. But that number (like those calming porn sites) is blocked at work. Of course this would effect your production. How can you in good conscience finish that quarterly report when everything seems so meaningless? Lets see who's at the watercooler. Maybe just a little nap in the broom closet.
Well, corporate America has seen your distraction. But it seems that it's only the Christian workers who are visable and provided the smiling, and nodding functionary. Do the Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Wicca and Moslem workers have no need of spiritual counseling at coffee break? How do you say class action law suit? Don't get me wrong. I'm all for Walmart hiring ministers and priests to keep the workers on an even keel. Afterall, these guys don't get paid much and have plenty of time on their hands. (I mean the Revs.) But what about the Rabbis, Imans, Shamans and Witch Doctors who could use a little pocket change? There's no shortage of disgruntled workers with itchy trigger fingers. They can't all be Christians.
So on this Holy Saturday where, legend has it, Jesus Christ spent the night in a cave, laid out on a flat rock, covered in the shroud of Turin, waiting for morning to go in search of all the colored eggs his disciples had helped the Easter bunny hide during the night.....let us bow our heads in prayer for all those godless jobsites. On Monday morning, after rolling away that stone, I have to face a floor sanding athiest, an agnostic plumber, two Mormon painters and the very devout tile guy. I wonder if the client will go for an extra. I've been to Seminary you know. Some spirtual healing may be in order. Then we have to do a dump run. Amen.