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Creating Welcoming Space
"Hospitality means creating welcoming space for the other. Henri J.
Nouwen notes that the Dutch word for hospitality, gastvrijheid, means
'the freedom of the guest.' It entails creating not just physical room
but emotional spaciousness where the stranger can enter and be himself
or herself, where the stranger can become ally instead of threat, friend
instead of enemy." In a time when it is more crucial than ever for
humanity to revisit its relationship to strangers, this passage from Sr.
Marilyn Lacey shines like a beacon.
