I only recently read this apparently old saying, “Everyone wants a revolution, but no-one wants to do the dishes.”
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Wow. Everyone wants things to change, but no-one wants to do the work to make it happen.
Most of the time when things change – when things improve and we solve global endemic problems, we do it not by symbolic self-aggrandising actions but by “doing the dishes” – taking constant, boring, diligent, anonymous actions. One tiny step at a time.
Even in churches, lots of people want to be up front, but few want to be out back, taking the children.
Here’s to those with their hands in the sink, quietly, methodically, carrying, changing, curing the world one dish at a time.
Paul Clark’s musings can be heard on radio across Australia and at atthetop.org.au.
