The Power of Love!

"Hospitality is born in us when we are well loved by God and by others. Hospitality is the overflowing of a heart that has to share what it has recieved. It takes a whole person to open up, it takes a secure person to be available, it takes a strong person to give yourself away.

It is possible to serve meals in a nursing home, to cook in a homeless shelter, or read stories to children at an inner-city library and never let others into your heart. it is possible to do the good thing and end up feeling satisfied with yourself and even just a bit superior. It is possible to do the good thing and not be changed for the better by it. Hospitality includes cooking the meals, and reading to the kid, but it demands that you let the people you are serving into your heart. Only in opening yourself wide to another are your transformed by the power of love."

Radical Hospitlality, p. 20