Power through Hospitality

Flexibility is the flip side of weakness!

Courage usually shoes up in the cracks… I’m starting to think that real hospitality is born there too. 

Today I have been wrapped up in my warm hoodie and trying to complete my readings for this coming weeks lecture. Completing one reading, I went back to see my notes in the margins of disagrees, arguments, but Jesus says… Reading about "physics to theology" it covered a little about the earth saying what makes us human is our ability to put the weakest among us in the centre of the community. When we are going this, we thrive. 

OH wait, I can hear you say!!! Jesus says the same ;o) Correct you are - Blessed are the poor in spirit… blessed are seekers of rightness and justice, blessed are those who make peace by caring for the least among us. 

 Lately I have watched a little bit of television in the evenings. I would say Im on the edge of too much… while watching the stories, news events, reality shows and the television program that runs through all this - advertisements -  I have come to the conclusion that we as a humanity are obsessed with power!! 

The sorrows, the tragedies of the past months might as well be narrowed down to the powerful, the powerless, and those who will do anything to keep their power. And all those who are crushed along the way? 

They are what we term, casualties, they are what turns our faces from what makes us human. When we fail to care for the weak, we fail to flourish. We fail to be what the Lord has made us to be. 

Its easy to look at the world through half empty glass, pessimistic view however one thing I truely believe is that we don’t have to wait for the kingdom of the Lord in after life, its here, now with us. 

One action that brings this alive is hospitality! 

Hospitality is everywhere!! Its not about performance, its certainly not about perfection! Its not even about beauty… rather its about weakness!

Its about us - individuals and society - turning our faces towards the weakest among us and extending our power, our energy out to them. 

No orderly house, hospitably throws wide open the doors. Its an invitation to tend to be an open - book, open - arm, open home kind of person. It offers itself, expecting nothing in return. It keeps no record of its service, counts no cost, craves no thanks. It is nothing less than the joyous, habitual offering of those who recall a gracious table set before them in the presence of their enemies, of those who look forward to a glorious table yet to come. (Psalm 23:5) 

If we want the world to change it starts here; in our homes, our neighbourhoods, our cities. It starts when we release our grasps for power and begin to cling to love.