I have been putting off starting this. I overthink and can make up an excess of excuses as to why my voice does not need to be 'put to paper', saved to the internet void, and maybe even read by a few close friends and family members. But I need this for myself. I need to write down whatever is floating around in my head, and I need whoever you are to give me space to verbally process. So feel free to join in, you can email me, comment on posts, etc. Whenever I get a free moment or need to clear my head I will come here, to the void and maybe I will just hear echos. But I can handle echos. This will be an opportunity for me to be hospitable to myself by giving my voice a platform.
Which leads me to my actual first blog :D Crazy, right? Seeking Hospitality is going to be a place where I muse over the complexities of hospitality. I have realized it pops up everywhere and really deals with everything. So without further explanation, welcome.
So why am I starting now? Because the idea of hospitality has been rolling around in my head for a long time. And as a friend put it, "You embody that word Katie." I see it sometimes, but I also noticed how vast the word is. Honestly, I am also my worst critic and always see the the things I am not doing. Hospitality...if I did not have the above pictured child of mine asleep I would look up various translations of the word, it's history, and ways it has popped up in iconic moments. And maybe I will do that eventually, for now I am on borrowed time since baby is sleeping.
It is a vast word and I start writing today because of my Dear One (baby). You see, this is the most hospitable thing I could ever do. This is not like a roommate for 18 years situation. She was grown in me. She is nurtured by me still. She is so very loved. And I start writing this because I want her to know that she is my Dear One. She has so much potential, yet she is also so vulnerable. Controls a whole room with a simple cry ;)
I am realizing that hospitality is relational. It is a matter of things working together, whether they know it or not. It is welcoming and always loving. It is vulnerable and should be honest. And I clearly see that with and through my relationship to my child.
How are you seeing hospitality in yourself today?
- My answer. I am cuddling my Dear One and not folding laundry or running errands. I am allowing myself to put my child's need (and mine) for comfort and cuddles to come first.
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