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So, we know that our home is for hospitality, but it seems so hard – it’s extra, and we have no room for extra. We want to know how to be hospitable, but it doesn’t come naturally.

The one thing that makes hospitality so difficult is that we are out of practice.

It is easy to slip into selfish patterns: doing what needs to be done on our own agendas, taking a break, keeping to ourselves and our own thoughts. Instead, we need to practice the habit of hospitality.

The being hospitable includes but is much broader than having people over for dinner. It means inviting people into our lives – even the people that live in our houses.

It is not enough to simply share a roof with people. We need to share a life – a full life, a conversational life – with them.