When I went to bed last night, the kitchen sink was piled with dishes. I stood looking at those dishes and at the dishwasher, which was in the middle of its drying cycle. Clearly, I wasn’t going to be able to empty the dishwasher, re-load it, and start a new wash cycle right then. So…
The observance of Lent has been heavy on my mind and heart these last few weeks. What could it do for my relationship with Christ, for my understanding of His sacrifice? Can liturgy take us deeper, or is it just a series of empty rituals? Different people will tell you different things. I have a…
Not long after E started training for his new job, one of his classmates approached him. She’d heard he’d been assigned to the Memphis office. “You’re married, right?” she asked. She explained that she had a friend in the Memphis office who had recently relocated there and was hoping for a connection – with me,…
I imagine that the greatest obstacle to radical hospitality, aside from our overarching self-focus, is fear. Fear is what keeps us from meeting the eyes of others in public. Fear keeps us from opening up and sharing the most vulnerable parts of ourselves. Fear is even an industry – a profitable one, one that masquerades…
Yesterday, I talked a bit about stepping into the role of the stranger, the one in need of hospitality, and how God is the ultimate giver of hospitality. Today, I want to talk a little bit about what it looks like for us – you and me – to be God’s emissary in the hospitality department….
I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about hospitality lately. It just seems to keep coming at me from every direction. My daily Bible study, at She Reads Truth, is currently on hospitality. The theme of the recent Allume conference, which I didn’t attend but have been listening to on audio, was hospitality. The book I’ve…