Editor’s Note: The following reflection has been excerpted from Christine Sine’s post Guests of the World. The accompanying recipe is from Christine Sine’s post Refreshing Drinks From The Garden For Hot Days. We hope you enjoy this series of seasonal hospitality reflections and recipes! Be sure to email us your favorite summer recipes for inclusion in our community cookbook. Find the details here: https://tinyurl.com/GodspaceCommunityCookbook
As we entertain and enjoy fun, food and fellowship together, I am very aware that in some ways all of us are guests, guests of God and of God’s world, generously and lavishly experiencing the hospitality of a world that is itself a gift from God. I am aware of that as I pick raspberries in the early morning, enjoying the abundance of God’s provision. I am aware of it too as I gaze on the beauty around me and breathe in the fragrance of God’s presence.
Celtic saints, who saw themselves as hospites mundi, or guests of the…
