In cultures around the world, gathering together is an opportunity to wish good fortune, to note special milestones and to express hopes for the future. Which is say, a toast is essentially a prayer with a raised glass.
What toast will you offer the world today?
“There is no hospitality like understanding.”
―Vanna Bonta
When have you been moved by someone offering you the hospitality of truly listening and understanding your perspective?
You might not appreciate strangers getting in your face, but we can learn things from getting up close that we might never discover from a distance.
What have you learned from a close encounter?
In the Catholic calendar, Fat Tuesday leads us into Lent, the time of fasting. It turns out that getting wild and crazy and extravagant is a spiritual practice, as well as giving things up and doing without.
Have you learned more from extravagance or asceticism?
Many of us have welcome mats on our front door steps, but few of us have brought that welcome up to eye level where people are most likely to see it.
How might you elevate the message of hospitality with which you greet the world?
