Thank you for putting out this series! I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to you reading through your articles. Perfectly fitting for where I am at now ❤️
Thank you, Karissa! If my thesis is right, then hospitality *has* to work for those of us with arms full of babies and more laundry than we can manage....
This is so beautiful and encouraging. I can’t wait to continue reading your posts. It is true that when a busy mom of 6 like myself thinks about participating in hospitality at the level of a Rosario Butterfield or a Bethany Hebbard, it produces a bit of anxiety. But the God who calls me into hospitality reigns over a Kingdom of peace and rest, not worry and overwhelming work, so I must be approaching hospitality wrong. If it is for my good, the good of my neighbor, and the glory of God it should spur me on to love and joy. Practicing and participating in hospitality should woo me away from burnout and into the fulfillment of my true purposes in this life. Bethany, those of us who want to follow the way of Jesus, but feel things like grasping hospitality and true Sabbath rest are like chasing a white rabbit through Wonderland need what you are writing. We need a picture of hospitality in pictures and stories of grace. We need something aimed at our hearts and not our to-do lists. You are just the woman we want to hear from!
Thank you for this, Bethany! So beautifully written and an inspiration to me as I try to reconcile years of being taught that women should be freed from the home with this beautiful and compelling vision of the home as a place with deep significance for our hearts, bodies and souls.
That tension is so real. It was a revelation to me when I realized that what the feminists fought liberty from was a false home, depraved even. When we really imagine what home can be, *it* becomes the place that feels like freedom for men and women.
Thank you Bethany. I enjoy your writing and look forward to more in this series.
Thank you for reading, Marci! I hope you'll share your thoughts and insights as we go along.
Thank you for putting out this series! I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to you reading through your articles. Perfectly fitting for where I am at now ❤️
Thank you, Karissa! If my thesis is right, then hospitality *has* to work for those of us with arms full of babies and more laundry than we can manage....
This is so beautiful and encouraging. I can’t wait to continue reading your posts. It is true that when a busy mom of 6 like myself thinks about participating in hospitality at the level of a Rosario Butterfield or a Bethany Hebbard, it produces a bit of anxiety. But the God who calls me into hospitality reigns over a Kingdom of peace and rest, not worry and overwhelming work, so I must be approaching hospitality wrong. If it is for my good, the good of my neighbor, and the glory of God it should spur me on to love and joy. Practicing and participating in hospitality should woo me away from burnout and into the fulfillment of my true purposes in this life. Bethany, those of us who want to follow the way of Jesus, but feel things like grasping hospitality and true Sabbath rest are like chasing a white rabbit through Wonderland need what you are writing. We need a picture of hospitality in pictures and stories of grace. We need something aimed at our hearts and not our to-do lists. You are just the woman we want to hear from!
I don't really have words to say how much this means, Vanessa, except: thank you.
Thank you for this, Bethany! So beautifully written and an inspiration to me as I try to reconcile years of being taught that women should be freed from the home with this beautiful and compelling vision of the home as a place with deep significance for our hearts, bodies and souls.
That tension is so real. It was a revelation to me when I realized that what the feminists fought liberty from was a false home, depraved even. When we really imagine what home can be, *it* becomes the place that feels like freedom for men and women.
I'm looking forward to this series!
Thank you!