Please Have the Gift Ready!

Please Have a Gift ready!
2 CORINTHIANS 9.1-5

I knew there was something wrong the moment I walked into the shop. I used to go in two or three times every week, and knew the regular assistants quite well. But this morning the one I saw behind the counter looked as though she was, to say the least, not best pleased with life.

‘So how are things, then?’ I asked.

Many people would have said, ‘Oh, fine’, and passed it off. I would have gone away assuming that she had been bothered by something trivial, not worth talking about to a customer. But I got more than I bargained for...