Thank God For Dirty Dishes



This 2-year-old girl, Nichole, is an orphan at El Hogar De Ninos in
Santa Barbara, Honduras. She was so malnourished when she
came to the Hogar that all her teeth had fallen out.
Photo by Brianna Hoffecker



A preacher I knew as a little girl had a saying-"Thank God for dirty dishes." And, as a little girl, I hated washing the dishes. There was 11 of us in one house, and the dishes were constantly in abundance. Now, there are 9 people in the house and the dishes are just as many. But we should thank God for our dirty dishes. It means we had something to eat three times today-something 925 million people in 2010 didn't have. While world hunger may not be something we come into contact with every day, it's very much a problem throughout the world. Poverty causes many to go without. Fifteen million children die every year from hunger. A little closer to home, in the U.S., one out of eight children under the age of twelve go to bed hungry every night. Every 3.6 seconds, one person dies of hunger. This statistics aren't to guilt trip you into thinking you eat too much or anything like that, but simply to show you how God has blessed you. You get three square meals a day and sometimes you go out to dinner for a more expensive meal. The very fact that you can afford this is a sign of God's blessings upon your life.



So thank God for the dirty dishes you have to wash today, tomorrow, and the rest of your life, whether it be one or two or a few hundred. And thank Him for the food that was on those dishes.

Thank God For Dirty Dishes
Author Unknown

Thank God for dirty dishes;
They have a tale to tell.

While others may go hungry,

We're eating very well.

With home, health, and happiness,

I shouldn't want to fuss;

By the stack of evidence,

God's been very good to us.

To find out how you can help reduce world hunger, visit Food For The Hungry at http://www.fh.org/.