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  • Purposeful Living

    5 Creative Ways to Offer Hospitality This Summer

    June 9, 2021 /

    Daylight comes early now.  Hummingbirds suck down our sugary syrup before the slow drip of black coffee has even begun.  Summer is the season of long, lush days that open wide with possibilities.  It’s the season for picnics and bonfires – fireflies and s’mores. Summer is also the perfect season to offer hospitality. You might think of cookouts and sparklers when you think of summer hospitality. However, hospitality involves more than just opening our homes; it’s about opening our hearts.  We can offer hospitality anywhere. We weren’t made to do life alone.  Every time you open your heart and life to someone else, you extend hospitality.  This can happen in a…

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  • Purposeful Living

    6 Outdoor Hospitality Ideas for Autumn

    October 16, 2020 /

    There’s a single-file row of foxtail grass bending over the roadside like a line of school children dropping pennies off a bridge.  Oddly enough, seeing them posed over the gravel gets me thinking about gathering with others and embracing autumn’s invitation for offering outdoor hospitality.  It gets me thinking about standing with others to admire the season as it unfolds all around us. A few years ago, I wrote a series of posts on how to offer hospitality that changes lives (Check out the most popular post in this series here: 8 Surprising Ways to Extend Hospitality). The underlying message woven throughout these posts was this: Hospitality is the art…

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  • Purposeful Living

    How to be Hospitable Without Being Stressed

    January 15, 2020 /

    Grandma Miles’s house always seemed to smell of molasses, and I still remember the tall jar of hard candy she kept on the shelf by the door. There were always shoes scattered clumsily in the doorway.  There were always dishes in the sink, and coffee cups lined the countertop.  When I think of how to be hospitable, I think of Grandma Miles. It wasn’t the presentation of perfect baked goods or gourmet coffee that made Grandma’s house the picture of hospitality. It wasn’t the neatness of her shelves or the trendiness of her home décor. What made Grandma’s home the picture of hospitality was the warmth that exuded from the woman…

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  • Purposeful Living

    6 Creative Ideas for Showing Hospitality This Spring

    March 13, 2019 /

    As the daylight gradually begins to linger later into the evenings and the late-winter blizzards become less frequent, spring is a wonderful time of year to open your heart and home to others and embrace opportunities for showing hospitality. Ideas for Showing Hospitality: Here are six ideas for opening your heart and home to others this spring. Above all else, remember that you do not need to pursue perfection to create spaces where others know they belong.  Simply show up and love those around you, and you will be a blessing. 1. Embrace Maple Syrup Season Yes, maple syrup actually has its own season, and it might not be what…

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  • Purposeful Living

    7 Ways to Show Hospitality This Winter

    December 5, 2018 /

    Backyard bonfire days and barefoot swimming parties are a distant memory as we prepare for the long winter months ahead in these parts.  Nevertheless, I am reminded that the call to open my heart and home to others has not changed.  There are plenty of ways to show hospitality, even in the coldest winter months. While it’s refreshing to invite the neighbors to the backyard for a picnic, it sometimes feels overwhelming to open the doors of our inside worlds and welcome the noise and the mess. If you’re longing for socialization but not sure you want to open wide your front door, remember that hospitality can happen anywhere. 7…

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  • Purposeful Living

    5 Meaningful Conversation Starters to Foster Hospitality

    November 14, 2018 /

    Do you want to be the kind of person with whom others feel safe sharing their hearts?  If so, it can be helpful to have a handful of meaningful conversation starters ready and waiting! I’ve been mentoring younger women for many years.  Some of these women open up easily, and I don’t have to use my memorized conversation starters. At other times, these five categories for starting conversations are invaluable. I pray they bless you today, too. 5 Categories of Meaningful Conversation Starters The following five categories for asking deeper questions are etched in my mind, and when I meet to talk with a new friend or to directly mentor…

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  • Purposeful Living

    6 Creative Ideas to Help You Show Hospitality This Fall

    September 12, 2018 /

    It’s a clear evening overlooking Granite Creek. The sun has slipped behind the canyon walls, and alpenglow paints the West Ridge salmon.  I’m not thinking about how to show hospitality this evening – not in the least. The year is 2001, and I’ve just entered the identity-searching decade of my twenties. This will be the decade when I stumble blindly in the relentless search for the woman I want to become. I’ll begin my teaching career in the public high school. I have no way of knowing these things now, of course. For now, I’m content with my three-month job of washing dishes in the lodge where the teachers come…

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  • Purposeful Living

    15 Attitudes That Cultivate Biblical Hospitality

    July 11, 2018 /

    Ten years ago, I was just learning what it meant to offer biblical hospitality.  My husband and I lived in a little home at least a dozen miles from anything worthy of being called a town.  Mostly, we kept company with the deer and coyotes that walked through our front yard on cool autumn nights. I’d been investing in the life of a younger woman for a few months, and I finally invited her to our modest little home to chat. As the evening wore on, I wanted to hear more about her life, about the struggles that had shaped her and the truths that defined her.  I asked deep…

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  • Purposeful Living

    Opening Your Heart Is Just as Important as Opening Your Home

    June 5, 2018 /

    “Opening your heart is just as important as opening your home,” a friend reminds me as we chat on the phone. I stare out the window as stratus clouds linger low over the valley. This morning, I invited the neighbors to join our family for an evening of fishing at the creek. Now, as it threatens to rain, I wonder if I’ve made a mistake. I wanted our outing to be perfect.  As I watch the clouds gather, my friend reminds me that hospitality isn’t about perfection.  It’s about opening our hearts to others. I thank her, put down the phone, and begin packing for our evening at the creek.…

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  • Purposeful Living

    How to be Hospitable With Less Stress: 10 Easy Ways

    May 9, 2018 /

    Snow still lingered in the spruce boughs when we went to her house for an Easter crafting party. Her idea was to help the kids make colorful bath bombs using a recipe from Pinterest and dozens of pastel plastic Easter eggs.  She had no idea, but she was teaching me how to be hospitable on a very practical and imperfect level. We piled through the door in our winter boots, and she waved her arm in a welcoming gesture as the kids threw their coats in a pile on the floor. That afternoon, three moms began the patience-testing task of helping seven little ones measure perfect portions of corn starch,…

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