Daily Reading for February 4 • Cornelius the Centurion
Our ability to make room for others, and the joy we do or do not find in such activity, depends largely on our experience of being accepted or not. We build shelter for others because somewhere along the way someone sheltered us and thereby taught our hungry heart how to love.
From Daniel Homan’s Radical Hospitality, quoted in Finding Jesus, Discovering Self: Passages to Healing and Wholeness by Caren Goldman and William Dols. © 2006. Used by permission of Morehouse Publishing, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. www.morehousepublishing.com