Archives for October 31, 2012

This is day 29 in a 31 day series on hospitality. Start from the beginning here.
Well, it’s been a good run. I’m glad I took this journey with you. And the timing of my trip to Sanibel Island tomorrow couldn’t be better.  I’ll be reading Plato on the beach.  My life is nothing, if not a study in contrasts.  I’m hunting down margin and nailing him to sandy ground.

This song by Mumford and Sons is my series in a nutshell.  Listen to it more than once.  Feel his passion.  Let the lyrics dip deep.

{The truth is gnawing at him too.}

Let us sit for a while here.  Let us confess that for all our sweat, our ‘blood runs weak.”

And then we plead together,  “Keep my eyes to serve, my hands to learn.”

Hospitality is our soul offering to others.

Hospitality is that margin of ourselves that we set aside so that love can happen. 

Hospitality is the best of ourselves, broken and spilled out and lavished on our neighbor.

We live to serve.

Keep the earth below my feet,
For all my sweat, my blood runs weak
Let me learn from where I have been
Keep my eyes to serve, my hands to learn.

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I have 4-5 good posts left but I’ve run out of days.  I have 1-2 posts on table setting, the post on the well-appointed hostess,  several recipes that we didn’t get to and a post on difficult guests.   I’ve been discussing this with my people and we’ve decided to turn this series into  a printable pdf/ebooklet.!!!!  The work has already begun.  The new ‘days’ will be added and the content will be maximized for printing.  We hope to finish before Christmas.     I’m so excited about this!!!!  But it will be a lot of work so bear with me.  I’ve added a few more pins to the Hospitality Board at Pinterest so feel free to peruse it.  Also, don’t forget to add links to your recipes to the comments on this post-–some of those will be used in the booklet!

Also, the 12 Days of Christmas is supposed to start tomorrow but I have a prior posting commitment that totally slipped my mind (please forgive me) and the first tutorial (WHICH IS AWESOME) will be posted early the next day.  Get your glue guns and your sewing machines ready!

Also, our online book club begins Plato’s Republic tomorrow and the post for Antigone, along with an introduction to Plato will be added later today!  To join, just buy the book, start reading and check the forum and my blog occasionally for updates.