“Hospitality, therefore, means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.”
― Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (Image, 1986), p. 71.
Questions for reflection: In what ways is your communicating hospitable? How does it invite people to a space that provide safety and renewal without the fear of persuasion or persecution when they disagree?