...pause and consider whether it’s worth making some major changes to enable us to be at home in one familiar place – our home, our community and our surroundings.
Bearing one another's burdens seems to me to be one of the main purposes of our lives. And hospitality (in our always-imperfect homes) is one of the main tools for us to that end. Lovely thoughts, as always, Carol!
Thanks, Shannon. It's swimming against the current to bear another's burdens in a culture where individualism, success & celebrity status are worshipped. I didn't know quite how to word this so I left it out, but somehow having people over for a meal always leaves me with a settled feeling; that this is where God has placed me - like the words from the last chapter of Middlemarch- ''...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life...''
Bearing one another's burdens seems to me to be one of the main purposes of our lives. And hospitality (in our always-imperfect homes) is one of the main tools for us to that end. Lovely thoughts, as always, Carol!
Thanks, Shannon. It's swimming against the current to bear another's burdens in a culture where individualism, success & celebrity status are worshipped. I didn't know quite how to word this so I left it out, but somehow having people over for a meal always leaves me with a settled feeling; that this is where God has placed me - like the words from the last chapter of Middlemarch- ''...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life...''
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