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What hospitality looks like

Hospitality at its core is the “quality or disposition of receiving and treating guests and strangers in a warm, friendly, generous way.”  I am big on hospitality, maybe its the southern girl in me but greeting and creating a warm space is vitally important. I want others to feel at home, at peace and whole in my space. I want others to experience a place in which they are free to be themselves. Hospitality is easy to extend when it is with someone in which we have extended the invitation. Hospitality flows like the current of a river when we have set the table and the arrival of the guest is a known quantity.  Being gracious and generous is easily embodied when the name of the guest is well worn within the muscles of our being. I am currently experiencing the depths of generosity known as hospitality. It is a hospitality that heard our need and without hesitation invited us into their everyday dwelling (actually we had two families extend this invitation when the reality of our hous