Posts tagged hospitality
Posts tagged hospitality
We come to welcome and to be welcomed,
To build bridges over the chasms that divide us
Into a thousand separate selves, each alone, often lonely.
When we are tired with the work we have to do or feel unequal to it;
When we dully wonder about it being worthwhile;
When our pleasures, so easily taken, communicate no happiness to the heart;
When we are fretting about our own faults or the faults of other people;
When one day repeats another and we pine for some change we know not what:
Then may the voices of our own heart’s courage and of agelong wisdom call us to their hospitality
Your reluctance to go ‘among strangers’ cannot too soon be overcome; & the way to overcome it, is not to remain at home, but to go among them and resolve to deserve & obtain the love & esteem of those, who have never before known you. With them you have a fair opportunity to create the world anew…
