Making Space for What Matters-You!
Don't you just love opening your mailbox, and finding an invitation? It doesn’t matter who it’s from or what the event is. Whether it’s a hand-written, formal invitation or an e-vite, we thrill to see our name on the guest list. We love to be included- to be in the inner circle even if it’s a party we’re not keen on attending.
As C.S. Lewis said of a committee he was asked to be part of,
“A terrible bore… ah, but how much more terrible if you were left out! It is tiring and unhealthy to lose your Saturday afternoons: but to have them free because you don’t matter, that is much worse.|”
All of us at one point or another have had that feeling of being on the outside, of not mattering. Like young Forrest Gump looking for a seat on the bus, we breathe a sigh of relief when we hear Jenny’s kind voice saying, “You can sit right here” and pats the seat next to her.
Hospitality is like that.
It’s making space for what matters. And we all matter. And once we realize that we do, in fact, have a seat at the table, that we do belong, then it’s so much easier to extend this gift to others.
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