Grace Growers

While I'm feeling a bit frustrated by technology, God shows me that people can be just as bad!

I really find it hard to cope with people who are rigid in their thinking-- like Mr Man in "Little Britain" (Pirate Memory Game anyone?). I should post a You Tube link shouldn't I? Here it is:







Anyway, this woman from out of town wanted a present for "a man- a truck driver." She thought books on CD would be good, but we don't have any of those, so maybe some praise CDs. Any suggestion I made she dismissed with a gruff couple of words:

 Hillsong CDs- "don't like them- too loud" But they would keep him awake. "He's probably got them"
Books: "Driven by Eternity"- looks at cover after I explain the book- "That's for young people."
Max Lucado- "Too deep." (Interesting, I thought)
She picks up a Philip Yancey book- and I'm thinking "And you think Maxy's deep!"
She looks at a book by Gilbert Morris- a fictioanlised acocunt of Noah. "Would a man like this" "Well I read it and I like it." "Yes but an older man in his 40s" "Well I'm 50."
After a while she settled on "The Shack" and "Inspirational Australian Stories" which I trid to point out when she started. And "Run Baby Run"- her review: "It's full of violence and stuff- men like that, and it's got a picture of a man on the front" (I didn't tell her that most men like a woman on the covers, but I was just glad to close the sale).

So I managed to interact with a grace-grower for half an hour without strangling her- I tihnk I did pretty well!

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