Category: Hospitality
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There She Goes
When you are a writer you often turn to the process of writing to work through difficult emotions and fears. For me, this is one of those times. My only daughter is off to college tomorrow. I am sitting in my office and I am feeling lost. She is not my only child nor my…
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Witness
We want to solve everything don’t we? How do we fix the economy? Which candidate will be better? How do we cure cancer? Or obesity? Or poverty? What about violence in the Middle East? It is, of course, natural to be solutions oriented. When there is a problem, we try to fix it. If someone…
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Practicing Philoxena
Read my latest Midweek Reflection for LPI http://www.4lpi.com/2017/04/25/practicing-philoxenia/
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Dinner With Strangers
My wife and I had a late work day last week, so I decided to swing by a drive-thru and grab a sandwich for dinner. In front of me was a car with roughly 20 bumper stickers on the back. Some of the stickers didn’t make sense to me, but most of them were related…
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Angels Unaware
A Post by Chuck Frost Today’s reading from the Letter to the Hebrews instructs us to “Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels.” Recently I read a news story about the actor Matthew McConaughey whose car broke down in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I took interest since I…
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Mother Knows Best
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 I remember when I was young my Mother would make sure I wrote thank you notes to anyone and everyone I could. I would write a thank you note for a gift at Christmas. I would write a thank you note for the gift…
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Open Your Doors and Open Your Hearts
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 I remember driving to work and hearing on the radio about some plane that had crashed into the World Trade Center. I assumed at the time it was some daredevil stunt that had gone wrong. Upon my arrival, I went into the parish center…
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To Serve or Be Served
Let’s be real. It is awesome to be at an all-inclusive resort, a 4 or 5 star hotel, or a top restaurant, and be catered to like you were royalty. People bending over backwards to make sure you are happy. No matter who you are and no matter the simplicity you have been able to…
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Good Hospitality
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 When we realize we are going to have company, my family and I swing into motion with a frenzy. No dust shall be present for our guests. The bathrooms will be spotless and toilets worthy of the name “throne.” We must run to…
Tracy Earl Welliver 