Since I work for a premium cellular provider, one might assume that the majority of customers who visit the store would fit into the top economic bracket of society. However, my customers come from all walks of life (every day I experience the proverbial "that's what it means to work with the public").
Take Francis. Homeless. Sells his things to the pawn shop and then brings his cash to the store to buy accessories and extended batteries. He has fashioned numerous custom covers for his Droid3. He carries an "Obama phone" in his other pocket. He showed it to me the other day.
I asked him if he'd ever invented anything else and he told me about the ideas he had had long before those same products appeared in the store. He used to fix TVs.
He's in his 60's I assume, with graying blond hair. Small in stature with a large red "something" growing on his nose. He wears a green army jacket and a heavy silver chain with a cross pendant.
Sometimes we struggle when others have world views that are so different from our own. This can happen on the job, in our families, and even in our own households. For example, WestBarreDad and I cannot for the life of us understand why our middle son doesn't see work that needs to be done and step up to do it - like dishes ("We weren't raised that way and we aren't raising him that way":). (Sears rescheduled the dishwasher repair AGAIN. It will be over a month until they can find a technician to visit our neck of the woods).
I'm reminded of the Casting Crowns song, "If we are the body." "Jesus paid far too high a price for us to pick and choose who should come", or which personalities, living situations, or opinions are the most valuable. Today I pray for patience with difficult customers, difficult family members, and difficult co-workers. Oh, and difficult national appliance retailers.
