CUP OF COMFORT: Don’t Give Up . . . Endure

“Patient endurance is what you need now. . . .”

Hebrews 10:36

• “If nobody else is going to invent a dish washing machine, I’ll do it myself.” Josephine Cochrane was a socialite and had servants to wash her fine china in 1886. The servants were clumsy, though, and broke too many plates and cups. Josephine tried washing dishes herself, but it was a tiresome job, and she knew there had to be a better way. She went out to a shed behind the house and started figuring out how to make a machine do the work. She handled the transition from socialite to mechanic, but then faced a much harder task. Trying to sell her new machine, she constantly heard, “No.” In a 1915 survey, women insisted they’d rather wash dishes by hand in the evening because it relaxed them. Josephine patiently endured for decades before housewives were ready to have dishwashers in their kitchens. Today, dishwashers are a standard fixture in most American homes. Sticking to it makes it possible.

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