Though most of the material posted here will be new, I will also post some gems from my archives. With that in mind, here is a newly edited version of one of my more popular talks on daily living, which I gave back in 1999 when my children were still young. I hope they will forgive me for posting it so many years later.

Enjoy!

—Lee

­The theme “Doing Dishes,” came to me one evening last week when I was . . . doing dishes. We had spaghetti for supper that night—which can be quite exciting with a three-year-old and a nearly two-year-old! So there I was, standing at the kitchen sink after supper. Some of the dishes were piled up in the sink. The rest were on the kitchen table, where our family eats our meals, or scattered around on various countertops. First I washed what was already in the sink. Then I began to work my way outward through the kitchen, gathering and cleaning the various plates, cups, bowls, and silverware.

The moment I laid eyes on my younger son’s post-spaghetti bowl, I knew I wanted to talk about the Bible verse where Jesus says, “First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside will also be clean” (Matthew 23:26). As I looked at that bowl I said to myself, “Obviously Jesus never did the dishes for my two boys!”

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