This is a dishwasher. It's a GE something-or-other with bottle jets(!), adjustable silverware racks(!), child locks (which baby can totally defeat because she's clever like an octopus), and a delay start timer! I love it, possibly to an unhealthy degree.
This is also so much more than a dishwasher.
First, let me back up a little. When we purchased our house, it came with all the major kitchen appliances. The dishwasher we inherited was around 15 years old and clearly at the end of its good long life. After a year, it peacefully passed on to the Great Appliance Outlet in the Sky. We trekked out to the store and bought a new dishwasher that can only be described as "the cheapest one they had." We brought it into our home of six active dish dirtiers and it was fine. For like a year and a half. Then it unexpectedly resigned to take a position as a glorified dish drainer.
We had to do all our dishes by HAND. Like our heathen forefathers!
But we did not go out and buy a replacement because at that same time, I lost my job. A major appliance purchase was not in the budget.
I talk about my Evening Ladies Bible Study a lot when I blog. Most of the insights that inspire me come out of the studies we do together or the conversations we have. It's a great group of ladies - I really can't overstate that. They found out about my joblessness and did the most practical, amazing, Christ-like, love-filled thing they could - they gave us gift cards to buy groceries and one sizable gift card that I think was intended to get Christmas presents. But the thing we all wanted more than presents was to NOT WASH ANY MORE DISHES BY HAND.
So we bought the GE something-something, which is a dishwasher and also more than a dishwasher.
It's also an ebenezer.
In the first half of the Bible, people would set up monuments in places where God Did a Thing. Ebenezer means "the LORD is my help." Sometimes God intervenes in space and time and it's so important to remember those events. I know for me, each crisis is an opportunity to freak out and forget God's faithfulness. That's why people would set up physical reminders that you could see and touch even years later.
Every time I cook or get milk out the fridge, I glance over and remember God's provision in an uncertain time. I thank Him for the great friends we have - the ladies in my Bible Study and the guys who helped us with the installation. I remind myself to look for ways to bless others who are rowing the same boat I was in.
There is an ebenezer in my kitchen - it washes my dishes.
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| A dishwasher...or is it?? |
First, let me back up a little. When we purchased our house, it came with all the major kitchen appliances. The dishwasher we inherited was around 15 years old and clearly at the end of its good long life. After a year, it peacefully passed on to the Great Appliance Outlet in the Sky. We trekked out to the store and bought a new dishwasher that can only be described as "the cheapest one they had." We brought it into our home of six active dish dirtiers and it was fine. For like a year and a half. Then it unexpectedly resigned to take a position as a glorified dish drainer.
We had to do all our dishes by HAND. Like our heathen forefathers!
But we did not go out and buy a replacement because at that same time, I lost my job. A major appliance purchase was not in the budget.
I talk about my Evening Ladies Bible Study a lot when I blog. Most of the insights that inspire me come out of the studies we do together or the conversations we have. It's a great group of ladies - I really can't overstate that. They found out about my joblessness and did the most practical, amazing, Christ-like, love-filled thing they could - they gave us gift cards to buy groceries and one sizable gift card that I think was intended to get Christmas presents. But the thing we all wanted more than presents was to NOT WASH ANY MORE DISHES BY HAND.
So we bought the GE something-something, which is a dishwasher and also more than a dishwasher.
It's also an ebenezer.
In the first half of the Bible, people would set up monuments in places where God Did a Thing. Ebenezer means "the LORD is my help." Sometimes God intervenes in space and time and it's so important to remember those events. I know for me, each crisis is an opportunity to freak out and forget God's faithfulness. That's why people would set up physical reminders that you could see and touch even years later.
Every time I cook or get milk out the fridge, I glance over and remember God's provision in an uncertain time. I thank Him for the great friends we have - the ladies in my Bible Study and the guys who helped us with the installation. I remind myself to look for ways to bless others who are rowing the same boat I was in.
There is an ebenezer in my kitchen - it washes my dishes.
