SACRIFICIAL HOSPITALITY, thank God, has been part of the recent experience of Ron Shive, on sabbatical leave at Tantur in Jerusalem.
… in this home, I discovered sacrificial hospitality in spite of staggering limitations.
Misunderstandings abound in this life, and particularly in this part of the world, but the best way to overcome misunderstandings between groups of people is to foster individual-to-individual relationships. It is then that we discover that we are all made in the image of God and thus equally loved by God
If I had to sum up my own experience of Tantur, back in 2000, then “sacrificial hospitality” would do the trick. I’ve longed to return there, as to Taizé, too. But this kind of hospitality is the stuff I was speaking of yesterday, to be found in synagogues and schools, in universities and mosques, in temples and churches, in debating halls and sitting rooms all over the world. We need to celebrate it and, like Ron, share it, and never cease to work for it. “Father, may they all be one” … after the pattern of the divine sacrificial hospitality … after the pattern set forth by the gift and the miracle of life itself.
