“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”
Question for Meditation: When do you feel most “at home”?
Month: August 2021
“The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.”
Question for Meditation: How do people feel when they enter your space?
“Beloved, you are faithful in all you do for the brothers, especially for strangers; they have testified to your love before the church. Please help them in a way worthy of God to continue their journey.”
Question for Meditation: How can you help a stranger today?
“The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.”
Question for Meditation: Who can you feed today?
“My path is full of petals–I have swept it for no others.
My thatch gate has been closed–but opens now for you.
It’s a long way to the market, I can offer you little–
Yet here in my cottage there is old wine for our cups.”
Question for Meditation: What do you have to provide?
“Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels.”
Question for Meditation: Look for a chance to be hospitable this weekend.
“There is no hospitality like understanding.”
Question for Meditation: Who needs your understanding today?
“The focus of entertaining is impressing others; the focus of true hospitality is serving others.”
Question for Meditation: How are you serving others today?
“Hospitality is the practice of God’s welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God’s actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.”
Question for Meditation: How can you bring justice and healing?
“All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say: I was a stranger and you welcomed me (Mt 25:35).”
Question for Meditation: How do you welcome the light in others?
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