Comments on: On Hospitality http://reed.teammueller.com/2006/04/25/on-hospitality/ thoughts along The Way Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:29:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reed http://reed.teammueller.com/2006/04/25/on-hospitality/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Reed Fri, 28 Apr 2006 04:21:56 +0000 http://teammueller.com/reed/?p=24#comment-19 You bring up a good point, Kris, that I hadn't even thought of. Trust - both 'in' people and 'of' people - is so essential to the concept of hospitality. How can we really be hospitable if we fail to trust those we meet, who might need our help or who might be available to help us. But what's even more, the issue of trust comes clearly down to a statement of faith: Do we TRUST in our God. Will he see us through if we step out on faith. The answer, of course, is yes, he will see us through. The fear comes, however, in the method of his seeing us through. In following him in faith we might be taken through some very tough times. I want to fear less, or at least less listen to my fear. You bring up a good point, Kris, that I hadn’t even thought of. Trust – both ‘in’ people and ‘of’ people – is so essential to the concept of hospitality. How can we really be hospitable if we fail to trust those we meet, who might need our help or who might be available to help us.

But what’s even more, the issue of trust comes clearly down to a statement of faith: Do we TRUST in our God. Will he see us through if we step out on faith. The answer, of course, is yes, he will see us through. The fear comes, however, in the method of his seeing us through. In following him in faith we might be taken through some very tough times.

I want to fear less, or at least less listen to my fear.

]]> By: Kris Lauer http://reed.teammueller.com/2006/04/25/on-hospitality/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Kris Lauer Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:10:07 +0000 http://teammueller.com/reed/?p=24#comment-15 Boy, if we could only have the innocense of the love of that child! Hospitality in the States I think has, as with a lot of other words, been dumbed down in our society. We want people to feel comfortable around us but not too comfortable. (they may afterall want something from us if they really new what we had to offer!) Our mentality has become too guarded, too skeptical, too suspisious! We are afraid of what we might lose! We are too tied to things and the position we have in our lives because of those things. Things make us what we are! Ok maybe I am over doing it a bit, but I think if you think real hard most of my points would be proved to be true! Shadrach and the others can honestly be hospitable because they have not been corrupted by affluence and you probably don't last long in their society if people can't trust you. They don't have time to be petty or trite. They spend too much time just trying to live! They enjoy their time around others because they are alive! WE may feel that life is short and there is too much to do and too little time to do it. Then before you know it we are old and by the time we get our priorities straighted out... we are discarded into retirement centers as we take up too much time of the younger ones. It is sad to say that too often our society loses its' bearings because we forget to gleen the wisdom of our fore fathers and mothers because after all "they are just old" and we don't have enough time or money. Anyway, got to go... Life is happening here now and I have children to take care of. God bless you two! See you soon. Boy, if we could only have the innocense of the love of that child!
Hospitality in the States I think has, as with a lot of other words, been dumbed down in our society. We want people to feel comfortable around us but not too comfortable. (they may afterall want something from us if they really new what we had to offer!) Our mentality has become too guarded, too skeptical, too suspisious! We are afraid of what we might lose! We are too tied to things and the position we have in our lives because of those things. Things make us what we are! Ok maybe I am over doing it a bit, but I think if you think real hard most of my points would be proved to be true!
Shadrach and the others can honestly be hospitable because they have not been corrupted by affluence and you probably don’t last long in their society if people can’t trust you. They don’t have time to be petty or trite. They spend too much time just trying to live! They enjoy their time around others because they are alive! WE may feel that life is short and there is too much to do and too little time to do it. Then before you know it we are old and by the time we get our priorities straighted out… we are discarded into retirement centers as we take up too much time of the younger ones. It is sad to say that too often our society loses its’ bearings because we forget to gleen the wisdom of our fore fathers and mothers because after all “they are just old” and we don’t have enough time or money.
Anyway, got to go… Life is happening here now and I have children to take care of.
God bless you two!
See you soon.

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