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When you think about hospitality, don’t think entertaining. Don’t think about impressing or killing yourself making a five course meal. Think hospital. Think healing. Think soul care. Every day we cross paths with people who simply need kindness. And yet, kindness is so very …
Today I thought it would be helpful to look at several people in Scripture who practiced hospitality in the middle of different and difficult life circumstances. It’s easy to think that hospitality is only for those who have it all together, are financially stable, …
What is hospitality? Is it cooking three course meals and impressing guests with your beautiful tablescapes? Is it being a whizz in the kitchen like Betty Crocker? Or being the hostess with the mostess like June Cleaver? Can we all just breathe a big collective …
I’m starting a little series on hospitality, that I hope will encourage you as you seek to open your home and life to others. We know, as women of God, that hospitality is not for just for the Martha Stewarts and June Cleavers of the …
Happy Monday! We’re in the middle of the cranberry harvest–an absolutely gorgeous time of year! Believe it or not we had to pause the picking because we are waiting for the cranberries to turn cranberry! Today’s Cozy Home Challenge is to invite someone over. There’s …
Today I want to talk about one of my favorite topics, hospitality, and the concept of stewarding our homes as grace-giving spaces where others find favor and kindness under our roof (or in our presence) whether they deserve it or not. I want us to …
When we first started homeschooling, I had two book mentors that impacted me tremendously and Sally Clarkson was one of them. Sally’s volume, Educating the WholeHearted Child was recommended to me by a friend, and I quickly devoured it. It helped give me a big …
Spring and summer are some of the best times to entertain and show hospitality. As the warm weather comes, you can move your party outside and enjoy warm evenings together. Casual barbecue dinners, sitting in the sunshine sipping lemonade with friends or more elegant dining …
My sweet friend Niki asked me to share some ideas for extending hospitality in the home, a topic that I am happy to cover because it is near and dear to my heart. In the last few years, I’ve been asked to speak several times …
This week we are hosting the National Hoops team at our church. We have a sweet family staying with us with their two young children. It has been an exhausting weekend, but it is so nice to have a baby and toddler in the house, …