To Be...Making Room
Made room for these two cousins to spend a week together this summer!
A She Reads Truth writer writes in a study on hospitality called Making Room
"I realized all the ways people had already made room for me:
Here is my time—it’s yours now.
Here is this meal—I want you to be nourished.
Here is my forgiveness—I know what a gift is to be forgiven.
Here is this space to sit—I’d rather you have rest than me.
Here I am entering into your sorrow—I was comfortable, but you need comfort more than me.
Here is my forgiveness—I know what a gift is to be forgiven.
Here is this space to sit—I’d rather you have rest than me.
Here I am entering into your sorrow—I was comfortable, but you need comfort more than me.
Even more extravagantly than the hospitality offered to me by others is that offered by the Father Himself:
I was an orphan—He called me His daughter (John 1:12).
I was a foreigner—He made me a citizen (Ephesians 2:19).
I was a foreigner—He made me a citizen (Ephesians 2:19).
My sin made me unclean like a leper—He did not cast me out (Ephesians 2:13).
Hospitality, I am learning, is often untidy and almost always inconvenient. But making room is not about my own comfort. It’s about taking something I presume is mine, and offering it to someone else."
Our church has it's annual "Free Market" this weekend. Families "in need" are identified and invited to come and shop for free! Today and tomorrow I'm going through lots of things I've presumed are mine and offering them up to others.
Making room in our hearts for others can be more difficult than getting rid of our "stuff".
Today I encourage you to join me in doing a little investigative work by looking into our hearts and seeing where space needs to be opened up for others to enter in and be appreciated, loved and encouraged.
Our church has it's annual "Free Market" this weekend. Families "in need" are identified and invited to come and shop for free! Today and tomorrow I'm going through lots of things I've presumed are mine and offering them up to others.
Making room in our hearts for others can be more difficult than getting rid of our "stuff".
Today I encourage you to join me in doing a little investigative work by looking into our hearts and seeing where space needs to be opened up for others to enter in and be appreciated, loved and encouraged.
