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I am not so hospitable

I am not so hospitable

The word “hospitable” is defined as: receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously; characterized by or betokening warmth and generosity toward guests or strangers..

  • Following my owner

    I was walking along a popular beach during midday. Some people were by themselves like me, and others with a friend or with their dog. I kept observing the interactions between the dog and its owner.

  • Church shouldn’t be a safe place for your problems

    It is coming up to two years now since I was officially diagnosed with anxiety and depression. Since then I feel that my thinking has largely been caught up in figuring out the best ways to live and maintain a good level of wellbeing.

  • A race is a race

    Christianity is the only religion that exclaims “grace” – when all other religions have humans striving with all that they have in order to reach the throne of god, our God comes down Himself.

  • Deficient Evangelism

    God loves us. We humans commit evil. As a result of committing evil, we are going to hell when we die. We go to hell because that’s what we deserve for doing wrong.

  • Train harder – don’t try harder.

    I’m sure I am not the only person who looks at the sleek performances of Olympic athletes and thinks that these professionals make complex and demanding sports look effortless and, almost, achievable for an amateur like me.

  • Road closures

    The rain in the past few weeks have brought lots of destruction. Drains clogged, roofs leaked, roads turned to streams and travels disrupted.

  • What do you do with pearls?

    Just imagine going to work one morning, and returning home the same day $100 million richer. What kind of job is that, you ask? Well, that’s the story of a Filipino fisherman who discovered an approximately two-foot-long pearl inside a giant clam. (https://www.forbes.com)

  • Facing Clucky

    I cowered in the corner of my playpen. On the other side, also cowering and staring straight back at me was Clucky, our bantam hen. We both stood there trembling, staring at each other, neither of us willing to move an inch.

  • Which Jesus do you believe in?

    In our world today, people seem to present a lot of different versions of Jesus.

  • Good disagreeing

    In June, the Methodist church in Britain voted to permit same-sex marriages. The vote to change the definition of marriage at the Methodist Conference passed 254 to 46. A freedom of conscience clause means those who oppose this change will not be forced to conduct same-sex weddings if they do not wish to.

  • Anger unchained: Why we can’t afford to ignore it anymore

    Anger is a human emotion as basic as happiness and sadness, anxiety and excitement.