Yeah! Clean Dishes!

Do you ever look around your house and your things and think, "Ugh! What a mess! I hate cleaning house, doing dishes, cleaning toilets, picking up shoes!" I do. This weekend I thought just that. But this morning, I woke up and starting thinking of all the things I should have done and all things still left to do, and thanked the Lord for all of them!

I once heard a story of two women. One was a young mother who was exhausted every day by chasing her toddlers around and doing daily chores. (We women know exactly how that feels!) The other was an older woman whose children were gone and her life had slowed down a bit. Each day they would go to their dishwashers to put up their dishes. The older woman would open her dishwasher and with a sigh of disguest, say, "Ugh, clean dishes." The young women would open her dishwasher, not even remembering if she had turned it on the night before, and with excitement in her voice, proclaim, "Yeah! Clean dishes!"

You see, it's all a matter of perspective, one women was put out at the thought of having to put up her clean dishes, the other was just happy that they were clean! That's how our lives are. It's all a matter of perspective. We may have too many things or we may be tired, but most of us can truly thank God for the fact that we have houses to clean, that we have shoes to put in our closets, that we have toilets to clean. So as for me and my stuff, I'm chosing to proclaim with excitement, "Yeah! Clean dishes!"