Hospitality:
Jo Saxton gives some awesome honest thoughts on the challenges and blessings of hospitality.
http://weare3dm.com/josaxton/we-are-3dm/epilogue-the-beginning/
Simplicity:
Joshua Becker makes some very good points on busyness.
Community:
Sarcasm? I'm getting rid of it (or recovering from it). Once when I was on staff with a ministry, one of my co-workers stopped me after I said something sarcastic. He said, "why did you say that?" I didn't have an answer, but it did open my eyes to how pervasive our sarcasm can be...and how off-putting it can be to others with whom we are in community.
Breathe (don't forget you're human): (I've shared this one before...but it's refreshing this morning)
"Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.
A good sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace. Loving somebody is grace. Have you ever tried to love somebody?
A crucial eccentricity of the Christian faith is the assertion that people are saved by grace. There's nothing you have to do. There's nothing you have to do. There's nothing you have to do.
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you.
There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it.
Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too" (Buechner, Wishful Thinking, p. 38-39).
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