Are you a chief cook and bottle washer?

• In your home?
• At work?
• In your club?
• In other organizations?

If you answer yes to the following questions, you qualify.

• Are you in charge of almost everything?
• Do you complete most of the work yourself?
• Are your tasks important but routine?
• Do you often wish for more help?

We can easily complain if we have the role of chief cook and bottle washer. Perhaps, however, we need to look at our responsibilities a different way.

• Think about people whose health will not allow them to work.
• Express gratitude for our abilities.
• Thank those whose help we receive.
• Train others to perform similar tasks.
• Request help when we need it. People are willing to help more often than we realize.

For all those chief cook and bottle washers out there, thank you. For everyone else, lend those special people a helping hand.

“Blessings on you if I return and find you faithfully doing your work” (Matthew 24:46 TLB).

Thank you to Brad Montgomery for the photo of sweet Savannah, a chief cook and bottle washer in training. Thank you to Rebecca Stafford, a longtime chief cook and bottle washer, for suggesting this expression.

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