Lesson Forty-Two Washing Dishes
“Good morning, Mary! How can you sing while washing dishes? I always feel cross, for I do not like to wash dishes.”
“Well,” said Mary, “I must tell you my secret. I used to feel cross, too. Now I think about the lesson I am to learn while washing dishes. Jesus said that we should make the inside of the cup clean as well as the outside.”
“Oh, yes, mama tells me to wash the dishes clean, but I get so tired of them.”
“But, Nellie, you do not see the lesson we are to learn. You know we try to look very pretty when people see us. We want them to think that we are pure and clean. When I am washing dishes, I think how Jesus makes my heart pure and clean. He says, Though your sins be red, I will make them white as snow.”
Nellie went home happy. Do you think she can sing now while washing dishes?