somewhere, somehow, somewhen

Dishes by the loads

After musing over my ever full but not often finished coffee today, I realized that the troops needed chased out of my mouth. Soo I ran and grabbed my extra large 'Colgate' the always whitening brightening everythinging tooth scrubber. With dismay I noticed that I had forgotten to put it on my grocery list, and the tube was just about empty. Squeezing a few drops out of the tube, I was thankful that God didn't squelch on the heavenly toothpaste.

Now with just a bit of his heavenly toothpaste we can have a big pearly-white gleaming smile, and make something that might not be so pleasant one of joy. Often in daily life we go about the little things such as dish duty thinking with a frown 'ohh if only I didn't have to do the dishes I would be able to read a book'.

A table after a spaghetti dinner often looks like some crazy artist had come with a brush full of red paint and randomly spattered the dishes for his masterpiece. With a pop the nearest one releases a little bit of it's artist goo and surrenders itself to the inevitable bath in the sink. The dishes make a great clinking sound as chips fall off where they hit the side of the dishwasher. With a frown and thoughts on the book laying on the table upstairs one forgets to think of what those film covered dishes really mean.

One artist smeared plate .. hey that was my sons! The masterpiece next to that? Why that was my friend's plate that came to visit! Wait a minute I guess that if one didn't have tomatoey goey dishes soaking in the sink then one wouldn't have loved ones -- be they children, a spouse, neighbors -- to make the mess!

So instead of sighing and thinking about the book laying upstairs perhaps it would be a good time to bless this mess! Grabbing a lil of Jesus/God's Whitening brightening toothpaste, I smile and thank-him for the artist tomatoey goey glop all over the plates. While each plate is gently snuggled in the dishwasher I sing a lil song that I am so blessed as to have so many in the extended family to love!

That reminds me.. I need to stop at God's store today and stock up on his new extra whitening - brightening smile maker. I heard he has a special going on -- pick one up for Free!

posted by Guinorion @ 2:25 AM