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Hospitality: Making Prayer Solid and Real by Rachel Ann Russell

One of the striking things about the Old Testament is the emphasis on proper hospitality, and the consequences of failures of hospitality. With the holidays upon us, home and hospitality intertwine: are we home already and others are returning to us? Are we going home, and relying on someone else to give us a place for our head? The vulnerabilities run on both sides.

Hospitality can be especially hard for us introvert people, because of the huge “Dickens–y” imagery surrounding and almost defining hospitality. Hospitality can also be very hard for extrovert people! Not just in focusing on the individual, in being present to each person at the party, but hard also in making sure that all those details are there when needed.

Every December is a new opportunity to explore opening up and letting in, going out and receiving, of careful discernment, of making prayer something real and solid.

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