1/20/23 - WORTH REPEATING

First, being present. Which I get, it's like, kind of overused these days. But for me, being present means caring so much about the thing you're doing or the person you're with that you stop caring about all the other things you need to do. And it's essential in delivering unreasonable hospitality. See, so often we have such long to-do lists that we aren't able to slow down enough to actually listen to the people around us, to the things they're saying and all the things they're not saying.

Will Guidara // The Secret Ingredients of Great Hospitality // TED Talks

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It does not take a big budget to start infusing this into your culture, because remember, it's not the cost of the gesture that matters. It's how it makes people feel. 

Will Guidara // The Secret Ingredients of Great Hospitality // TED Talks

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Marriage means responsibility. 

~ Victor Moore as Aloysius T. McKeever // It Happened on 5th Avenue

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A house, any house, is only what its occupants make it.  

~ Victor Moore as Aloysius T. McKeever // It Happened on 5th Avenue


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Here’s the thing. In Revelations, it says to us that there will be worshipers in Heaven from every tribe, language, nation and people group. To me, I don’t take that lightly. And so my point there is if we really want to have a more accurate picture of who God is, then we need to be more intimately engaged with all God’s people. And I think one of the things in the West, we’ve crippled ourself and our own discipleship because our pride helps us to think that we, because we have more money, we have more education, we have more power, we can dictate to everyone else who God is and how we should respond to God and what God is like. 

But the irony to that to me is that the number of people that are considering themselves people of faith, or going to church, particularly as Christians is declining in the United States. That is not the case in Asia. It’s not the case in Africa. So I think there’s a certain amount of humility is required to say, what can we learn from the global church? What can we learn from all God’s people, people from every tribe, language, nations and people group?

~ Natasha Sistrunk Robinson // Voices of Lament with Natasha Sistrunk Robinson and Mariah Humphries // Emily P. Freeman's The Next Right Thing

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