Radical Hospitality

"Radical Hospitality" has become a phrase in churches, inviting congregations to go beyond what they consider to be hospitality, but may really just be friendliness, to something deeper. Something more challenging and transformative.

​While churches may have recently picked up this phrase, spiritual direction has always been a place of radical hospitality. I was sharing with one of my students recently that my first spiritual director would meet me at the door, take my coat and ask if I wanted a cup of tea. As the tea brewed, we settled in with one another to do the holy work before us.

Holy work that focuses on the directee and their experience of the Divine. 

And perhaps that is what makes spiritual direction such a place of radical hospitality. It isn't about the director - their thoughts or preferences. Rather it's about the directee and their noticings of the Spirit.

There are so few places in our world today where we show up and something is about us. Is for us. And exists to help draw us closer to God. Where are places that you have discovered radical hospitality in your life?