Radical Hospitality

October 23, 2008

Hospitality, rather than being something you achieve, is something you enter. It is an adventure that takes you where you never dreamed of going. It is not something you do, as much as it is someone you become. You try and you fail. You try again. You make room for one person at a time, you give one chance at a time, and each of these choices of the heart stretches your ability to receive others. This is how we grow more hospitable — by welcoming one person when the opportunity is given to you.

– Radical Hospitality: Benedict’s Way of Love by Daniel Homan and Lonni Collins Pratt

 

(In light of Luke 15:1-10)

Our God, we ask that we too would be accused of being a friend to sinners. May the seats around our table always be filled with sinners! Shape us into a hospitable people—a welcoming people who are always willing to leave the ninety-nine for the one.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen

– Closing Prayer, Thursday Morning, October 23rd, The Missio Dei Breviary

Posted by brad brisco | Filed Under Hospitality 

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