Hospitality of the Heart
Marilyn Brown Oden examines how true hospitality extends beyond furnishing your guest with food and drink. It involves making them truly at home, comfortable with their surroundings and meeting their needs, both the stated and the unstated. True hospitality doesn't criticize, condone, or cut short. We share our souls and our stories and are no longer strangers. It offers us the gift of another's presence. We weep and laugh together, holding hands and touching souls. True hospitality of the heart is not about impressing someone, but rather about caring for someone. This little book will change your life as well as those around you.
- Published
- 2002
- ISBN
- 1-890437-82-4
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- A-Peak Publishing
- Listed at
- $12.95
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About this book
Hospitality of the Heart is a short book by Marilyn Brown Oden about welcoming people. Its description argues that true hospitality goes beyond food and drink. It means making a guest feel at home and meeting their needs, both the stated and the unstated.
The description lists what true hospitality does not do: it doesn't criticize, condone, or cut short. Instead, hosts and guests share their souls and their stories and stop being strangers. It names the gift as another person's presence, and says we weep and laugh together, holding hands and touching souls.
The aim, the description says, is caring for someone rather than impressing them. It calls the work a little book that will change your life as well as those around you. Our catalogue lists it as 128 pages from A-Peak Publishing in 2002, in the Other category.
Who it is for
This book speaks to readers interested in hospitality as a way of caring for other people, in the home or beyond it. It is a reflective work rather than a hosting manual with menus or tips. The record does not list subject headings for it, so what we can say is limited to its description.
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