KINDNESS AND HOSPITALITY

MONDAY-I will be leaving to GO BACK to my HOME in SOUTHERN FLORIDA-many thank yous to the APPLEBY FAMILY for the invitation up for Carley’s graduation-and their HOSPITALITY and their many KINDNESSES Also thank you to John and Karen Williams-and Diane Donahue for their kindness-and to ALL of you who came out to see me-spoke to me-or even sent me e-mails-or contacted me by face book on my trip up here GOD WILLING-see you in sunny SOUTH FLORIDA next week And REMEMBER: GOD LOVES YOU!-and so do I OFFERING KINDNESS AND HOSPITALITY The greatest gift That we can offer another IS the gift Of ourselves We may Not be able To give totally Of ourselves-LIKE Jesus did (to his EVERY last breath) BUT we can offer ourselves By offering our kindness-our hospitality- To FAMILY-to friends-and to community OCCASIONALLY-even To those Who don’t like us so much “Let me bring you a little food That you may REFRESH yourselves” Genesis 18:5 So-TODAY- We read about Abraham and Sarah OFFERING kindness and hospitality To three strangers I wonder WHAT their motivation was I KNOW That WHEN I offer anything of myself To anyone KINDNESS-hospitality-giving out my poems My motivation Comes from PURE LOVE I suspect that that Is what their motivation was And I know That is what CRIST’S OFFERING Of himself was-for our sins PURE LOVE “ALL a person’s ways SEEM PURE to them But motives are weighed BY THE Lord” Proverbs 16:2 OFFER kindness and hospitality To others At every chance FROM PURE MOTIVES Well-in the end Sarah and Abraham Were REWARDED for their efforts They are PROMISE- A son When the strangers Are to come back again In a year Sarah was looking For no reward And even laughed When she was told that For she was very old “But WHEN the kindness And LOVE OF GOD OUR SAVIOR APPEARED He saved us Not because Of righteous things We had done But because OF HIS MERCY” Titus 3:4 So WHEN you offer KINDNESS AND HOSPITALITY to anyone Though you know not What the effect of the gesture Might be THINK-that you offering To the visitor THE KINDNESS OF CHRIST What better motivation Or REWARD Is there than that Robert P. Wallman 6-23-15 INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sister Joyce Rupp, O.S.M