Expressions of Faith: Happy Hospitality

Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.

(1 Peter 4:9 NIV)

Happy Hospitality

Before dementia took it’s toll, my mom was the embodiment of this verse.

Even now, although she may not know who you are, one of her first questions when you enter the board-and-care home in which she live will be, "would you like something to eat?"

Thanksgivings at “Owen and Burdie’s” (my dad and mom) home meant as many as 40 people gathered in a giant potluck and fellowship.

• Not all were family.
• Some years, not even half were related to Mom.
• Every year included what she sometimes called “strays”—those without another place to land for the holiday.

As long as I can remember, over 65 years now, she has hosted travelers and fed those without family to support themselves—any week of the year.

I never heard her grumble once.

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