Hospitality seems like a distant dream, under current stay-at-home orders. Still, we are eating together more than we typically do, often family-style.
Hospitality is a timeless virtue, one sought in leaders, especially leaders in the church.
"It’s important that a church leader, responsible for the affairs in God’s house, be looked up to ... He must welcome people, be helpful, wise, fair, reverent, have a good grip on himself, and have a good grip on the Message..." Tit. 1:8
"Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it." Heb 13:2
Welcoming people into your home is a loving invitation. Welcoming a stranger is a gift of inclusion. I have warm memories of being invited to Sunday dinner when I was "a stranger in a strange land." A family I hardly knew would ask a few college students to dinner after church services. When studying abroad in France, I was graciously invited to Sunday dinner, once again after church services. Those home cooked meals meant the world to me, far from home.
Welcoming people into your home is a loving invitation. Welcoming a stranger is a gift of inclusion. I have warm memories of being invited to Sunday dinner when I was "a stranger in a strange land." A family I hardly knew would ask a few college students to dinner after church services. When studying abroad in France, I was graciously invited to Sunday dinner, once again after church services. Those home cooked meals meant the world to me, far from home.
Hopefully in our confined quarters, we are cooking together to create, to converse, to count, and to share fond memories of people and places we love. When we gather once again to celebrate with family or friends or simply be together, be ready to share a new dish.
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Better yet, why not hone your cooking skills or experiment in the kitchen now? You have time, don't you? Christopher Kimball of "Milk Street Kitchen" is offering their entire line of online cooking classes FREE throughout May 30, 2020! Check out the many free online classes!
