Welcome to Dishwater Disciple!
I am so glad you visited. I hope that you will drop in regularly and come to consider me a friend.
First, introductions:
My folks called me Christi; my classmates called me Chris; my given name is a call to be a follower of Jesus: Christine means Christ-like! It reflects my parents’ deep desire for me (and themselves). Even without understanding the meaning of my name, I have wanted to be like Him as long as I can remember. And it didn’t take me long to figure it out!
When I was about two years old, my mother found me sitting in “the corner” (the old-fashioned version of the time-out chair). When she asked why I was there, I replied that I had been bad, so I was putting myself in the corner. Even as a toddler, I came to see that my only hope of change was the one my parents had already embraced wholeheartedly: to declare Jesus to be my Master and Forgiver and to seek to follow His ways in every area and every moment of my life. Now, six decades, six children and lots of dishwater later, I am still a #dishwaterdisciple.
What could be plainer, more ordinary, than dishwater?
Everyone eats and must wash up after. Even if you live in a Middle Eastern country where the meal is scooped from a common bowl with your bare right hand, there are that common bowl and the chai glasses to clean. Especially for a mom, dishwater is one of the basic substances of life. You either have your hands in it up to your elbows, or it’s swirling around the cereal bowls and coffee mugs in the dishwasher, or else the chaos that used to be the kitchen stands as a memorial to its necessity.
I choose to follow Jesus as my everyday pattern of life, not just an occasional event, nor even a regular religious exercise, but my ordinary, dishwater life. Am I perfect at it? Good, even? Hardly.
But that’s where I’m bent, aimed, determined to be: with Jesus in the mundane, unglamorous, and sometimes ugly, dishwater of life.
Come along with me as I follow Jesus — in my garden, my kitchen, the recording studio…all those glamorous places. 😉 You are invited even into some of the places in my heart that are not especially lovely, because it is there you will see Jesus’ work most clearly.
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Following Jesus every day in the everyday,
Christi
#dishwaterdisciple
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