Hospitality

The means of being hospitable gets muddled into commercialized aspect that has got to do only with serving.

As many people in the service line are taught to be hospitable, there comes a concern in me that these people lack one valuable reason on hospitality.

The functional world revolves around making money out of everything. That people have to pay huge amounts to learn to be hospitable, in polytechnics or private institutions.

Little did we know that despite learning all these commercialized form of hospitality doesn't make us any more hospitable than we were before we enrolled.

Yes, there are techniques to be learned in the commercialized hospitality industry. However, it doesn't teach you that Love should be the reason and outcome of hospitality.

There's not one technique that tells people to serve with love.

However, you will find that people who have a hospitable background tend to serve others better than those who have had no familiar hospitality background while growing up.


Sometimes however, hospitality may be derived from the second family of the person. Second families consists of relatives, extended relations, and of course, (parish) community.

To be hospitable we must be willing to offer these three things at least;

1. Food &
2. Drink
3. A place to sleep

Of course it doesn't stop there. Offer these without the heart served with it is a piracy of hospitality.

I attended a seminar regarding (Christian) Hospitality last weekend, and what moved me was the best hospitable act to give / show our visitors etc is our presence.

The way we talk, the way we look at them, we listen good and we respond with realness of ourselves.

Now that wraps up hospitality.

You may not offer food, drinks and a place to stay because maybe you don't have enough of these, or none at all, but you offer your presence and that sums up all.

And this I write from the opinion of my heart <3

Feel free to second this or to beg to differ :)

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