Hospitality

Hey folks!
What a great disussion last night! Please feel free to share any other thoughts about the theme of hospitality throughout the week. And, just an encouragement for all of us to be quite intentional in being hospitable in the situations in which we find ourselves.

The passages that we read last night:
Gen 18:1-8
And the LORD appeared unto him by the terebinths of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 2 and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed down to the earth, 3 and said: 'My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. 4 Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree. 5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on; forasmuch as ye are come to your servant.' And they said: 'So do, as thou hast said.' 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.' 7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hastened to dress it. 8 And he took curd, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

Lev 19:34
"You shall regard the foreigner living amongst you just like a native born citizen. Love him as yourself because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt."

And for the more visual among us...a fresco by Giovan Batista Tiepolo: