The radio station that I listen to when I'm getting dressed every morning is a little bipolar. During the week, it's "adult contemporary," playing everything from The Commodores to Kelly Clarkson, but on Sunday mornings, it transforms into a contemporary Christian station. I don't understand this, but I'm too lazy to bother with turning the dial, so I just listen to it regardless of what's playing, whether I like it or not. What I don't like about adult (or any other) contemporary music can pretty much be summed up in two words: John Mayer. Don't ask me why, but I've never been a fan of his music. I just think he's a tad overrated, and "Your Body is a Wonderland" drives me up the wall. The one that really gets under my skin, though, and the one they play all the time on this radio station, is "Waiting on the World to Change." It's like the anthem for the apathetic.
Here's a guy with an unbelievable amount of influence and a platform from which millions of people hear him every day talking about how he's unhappy with the state of the world, but doesn't have the means to do anything about it? This is a dude who could suggest in a song that we make Peeps our national marshmallow mascot, and a million googly-eyed girls would leave Hollister and start a petition to make it happen for him. But instead, he's gallivanting around Italy with Jessica Simpson (well, maybe that's old news, but still...) talking about how tragic it is that there's just nothing we can do about anything. So we keep on waiting...
In the meantime, almost every Sunday morning, the same radio station plays a song by Natalie Grant called "What Are You Waiting For?" Grant asks the same questions that John Mayer does, but she comes to a very different conclusion about it all. She says, "Sometimes I feel a little helpless./ Seems like I can't do a thing,/ But anything is possible/ Just you wait and see.../ If I tried to make a difference, would it help anyway?/ But then I stop and to myself I say,/ So you want to change the world?/ What are you waiting for?"
I'm not saying we should only listen to Christian radio, and I certainly mean no personal affront to John Mayer, because we all float the blasé boat at times. It's a problem of our generation. He just happened to be the one to write a song about what we all feel at times. Sometimes I don't care, sometimes I'm lazy, and sometimes everything just seems pointless. I go to work, I go to the gym, I go home, I write an article for a little online magazine that not many people even know about. What am I doing that could possibly change the world? And then we get an email from a complete stranger, who somehow stumbled across our site, thanking us for what we are doing here, and it all makes sense. One word, one article, one woman at a time, we are doing our best to make Christ known. And that is not only world-changing; it is earth-shattering, purpose-giving and life-altering.
The dirtydish desires to cultivate a community of women who, through discussions, humor, stories, poetry, music and art, can fearlessly explore God together by opening up their hearts and minds to each other. Through these explorations, women may be able to gain and foster in each other integrity in friendships, work, the home and all areas of life and the strength to fearlessly take on life's problems with grace and honor as outlined by Biblical principles. The dirtydish also seeks to redeem culture and the arts by pursuing excellence so that the message of the cross is not only projected, but projected in such a way that God may be glorified by others seeing and responding to His unlimited creativity.
To that end, you're going to be seeing a lot of changes around here. And if you're so inclined, join us in changing both the dirtydish and the lives of those who read it. As the physical manifestation of Christ’s love in today’s world, we, His body, are called to use our talents and resources to love and redeem everything around us. We pray that God would use the dirtydish to do just that.
Here's a guy with an unbelievable amount of influence and a platform from which millions of people hear him every day talking about how he's unhappy with the state of the world, but doesn't have the means to do anything about it? This is a dude who could suggest in a song that we make Peeps our national marshmallow mascot, and a million googly-eyed girls would leave Hollister and start a petition to make it happen for him. But instead, he's gallivanting around Italy with Jessica Simpson (well, maybe that's old news, but still...) talking about how tragic it is that there's just nothing we can do about anything. So we keep on waiting...
In the meantime, almost every Sunday morning, the same radio station plays a song by Natalie Grant called "What Are You Waiting For?" Grant asks the same questions that John Mayer does, but she comes to a very different conclusion about it all. She says, "Sometimes I feel a little helpless./ Seems like I can't do a thing,/ But anything is possible/ Just you wait and see.../ If I tried to make a difference, would it help anyway?/ But then I stop and to myself I say,/ So you want to change the world?/ What are you waiting for?"
I'm not saying we should only listen to Christian radio, and I certainly mean no personal affront to John Mayer, because we all float the blasé boat at times. It's a problem of our generation. He just happened to be the one to write a song about what we all feel at times. Sometimes I don't care, sometimes I'm lazy, and sometimes everything just seems pointless. I go to work, I go to the gym, I go home, I write an article for a little online magazine that not many people even know about. What am I doing that could possibly change the world? And then we get an email from a complete stranger, who somehow stumbled across our site, thanking us for what we are doing here, and it all makes sense. One word, one article, one woman at a time, we are doing our best to make Christ known. And that is not only world-changing; it is earth-shattering, purpose-giving and life-altering.
The dirtydish desires to cultivate a community of women who, through discussions, humor, stories, poetry, music and art, can fearlessly explore God together by opening up their hearts and minds to each other. Through these explorations, women may be able to gain and foster in each other integrity in friendships, work, the home and all areas of life and the strength to fearlessly take on life's problems with grace and honor as outlined by Biblical principles. The dirtydish also seeks to redeem culture and the arts by pursuing excellence so that the message of the cross is not only projected, but projected in such a way that God may be glorified by others seeing and responding to His unlimited creativity.
To that end, you're going to be seeing a lot of changes around here. And if you're so inclined, join us in changing both the dirtydish and the lives of those who read it. As the physical manifestation of Christ’s love in today’s world, we, His body, are called to use our talents and resources to love and redeem everything around us. We pray that God would use the dirtydish to do just that.
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