Heart-sinkers!

Are there any difficult people in your church?

I mean really difficult. The kind that make you flinch inwardly as you see them approaching for a conversation. When I worked in general practice they wrote books about people like that – heart-sink patients they called them. The kind of person that would cause a GP to take a deep breath before ushering them into the consulting room.

Nothing right

Perhaps it would be the endless list of problems – more moans and grumbles than seemed possible to fit into a few minutes of conversation. Or a constant undercurrent of anger – where everything is subjected to an icy stream of withering sarcasm and nothing, it seems, is ever satisfactory.