JOURNAL /HOSPITALITY

 

JOURNAL/HOSPITALITY

“Rather-WHEN you hold a banquet-INVITE the poor-the crippled-the lame-the blind;BLESSED indeed will you be BECAUSE of their INABILITY to repay you-for you will BE REPAID at the RESURRECTION of the RIGHTEOUS” Luke 14:13-14

SAY that AGAIN Lord-DO YOU really EXPECT US to give without the possibility of being REPAID?

YES-that is exactly what our Lord means-SO MUCH SO that Jesus echoes this command in Matthew also

“FOR-IF you LOVE those who love you-what recompense will you have?” Matthew 5:46-WE ARE to GIVE without the expectation of being REPAID-WE are to GIVE to those in NEED-NOT just to those who can do something for us materially-or-who can FURTHER us along in our career

GOD and Jesus KNOW our intentions and our motives and they are to be PURE

it is a GREAT DAY to be ALIVE in GOD'S LOVE for us and a great day to do something for someone

in NEED who is in NO POSITION to repay the favor

SAY that AGAIN Jesus

WITNESS

7-11-13

HOSPITALITY

Hospitality is defined

As a cordial and generous reception of

Or disposition towards guests

“Then Jesus

Said to his host:

“When you give a luncheon or dinner

Do not invite your friends

Your brothers or relatives

Or your rich neighbors

If you do

They may invite you back

And so you will be repaid

But when you give a banquet

Invite the poor

The crippled

The lame

The blind

And you will be blessed

Although

They cannot repay you

You will be repaid

At the Resurrection of the righteous” Luke 14:12-14

That’s our God

That’s our Jesus

God lives in

Each and every one of us

God has made a HOME

Living in the weak

Living in the strong

Living in the healthy

And the sick

Living in the attractive

Living in the disfigured

And living in the rich

And living in the poor

God took on

The face of man

In the person of Jesus Christ

Who in fact-was poor

Who in fact

Died a criminal’s death

Why would he do this?

He wanted us to know

That he felt

What each and every human being

Feels at some point

Coldness-indifference-ingratitude

Luke warmness and REJECTION

And he REMAINS

Accepting toward us all

God wants us

To love as he loved

To shun no human being

For the more

WE give of ourselves

The more we find love

In one another

“SHARE with God’s people

Who are in need

Practice HOSPITALITY” Romans 12:13

God’s life

Is alive

In each and everyone of us

And by opening ourselves up

WHO KNOWS

Who we might meet

Along the way

“Do not neglect hospitality

For through it

Some have entertained angels

Without knowing it” Hebrews 13:2

HOSPITALITY is

An ongoing discovery

Robert P. Wallman

2-25-13

Ps Inspired by an article

In Living Faith magazine

By Father James Stephen Behrens, O.C.S.O.

WITNESS 7-11-13

11-3-14 and 10-13-14-2020