The following is helping me tremendeously when I am thinking about the dirty dishes and other daily chores:

“The following poem was found on the wall of a shepherd’s cottage out of Sedden in the 1960’s…….

Thank God for dirty dishes

They have a tale to tell

While others may go hungry

We’ve eaten very well

With home and help and happiness

We shouldn’t want to fuss

For by the stack of evidence

God’s been very good to us.

Sent in by Hassanah Lawler of Nelson.”

(Age Concern Newsletter, August 2009)

The dictionary:

chore

— a small routine task, esp. a domestic one.

— an unpleasant task.

Ephesians 5:20 “always giving thanks to God the Father for everything , in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

First Thessalonians 5:18