I suspect that part of the nurture of my family cultivated my “need” to be hospitable.  Some of my earliest memories are of my mom cooking for church events - not that hospitality is about serving and cooking for only church family and friends. Hospitality is about serving others, particularly in your home; it is a way to share the love you have in your heart which in turn should manifest itself into loving and caring for others. We are commanded: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

As I was contemplating this particular blog, I came upon these websites!

I love this one about hospitality and vintage recipes:

https://www.giftofhospitality.com/

This one in particular addressed God-given talents:

https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/using-your-god-given-talents

Hospitality is a spiritual gift.

It is difficult for me to understand those who are not called to serve others by being hospitable! Maybe that is part of the uniqueness of each of us having a spiritual gift...the inability to understand why everyone does not feel the same inner drive to achieve or bless others with whatever our specific gift is. 

Covid-19 has stressed me in many ways, but the most may be the lack of being able to invite people into my home so that I can feed them, serve them and hopefully make them feel as if our home is their home for the time that they are able to be with us.

Don't you agree that it is surely time for Covid-19 to just go away?