Thursday, March 21, 2013

Flunking Sainthood - Hospitality and Vegetarianism

It struck me this week how much of many of these spiritual disciplines involve paying attention to the people and things around you.

This week for example - the core of the discipline of hospitality is thinking about your guest and what will make your guest feel like they belong in your home, or your club or your church.  That is the basic definition of hospitality - making the guest feel at home - like they belong here.

The second chapter this week seems to me to revolve around thinking about where our food comes from - what impact are we having on ourselves and on the world around us by eating in the ways that we eat.

I wonder what it would be like if we tried to pay attention to the impact that we are having on the people and the world around us all the time - would we make different choices - would it draw us closer to God or to each other?

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