Hospitality 101

1 Peter 4:8-10, “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.”


Head on over to (in)courage for a wonderful post on hospitality and reaching out to others. It is written by the Reluctant Entertainer(Sandy Coughlin). I have learned so much from her!!

 This post really resonated with me, in that hubby and I used to have friends over almost weekly for a meal in our home. We used to do "spur of the moment" dinners with friends, make meals for those who needed help, bake cookies or muffins and share with the neighbors. Some how in the busyness of our daughters' high school years we just simply got out of the habit. Oh, we would say we were too tired, or the house wasn't perfectly clean, I needed to go shopping, etc. To some degree that was true, but often it just became an excuse to be selfish with our time.  One of the things we talked about on our recent vacation was to re establish that quality in our home once again. Of course two weeks back from Vacation and it was far from my thoughts until I read this post.

 Thank you Sandy for the reminder !!