Hospitality goes beyond the look-at-my-new ... and are-you-impressed mindgame - makes ya wonder

why you were invited over, in the first place.  Hhmmm, can't you also help, but to wonder if the entire show has been sponsored by master-kard?  But anyway, for those of us - on limited, or just plain prudent budgets - hospitality can be other-person centered.

Whether or not the plumber had noticed - and it doesn't really matter, because the Lord sure did notice - the clear and clean area under the sink, does indicate appreciation for the work he does.  He's not getting any younger, and surely he's done work in some grimey places.  Well, why not one less grimey place to work in?  And then thanking the man, for real - knowing even that bill is gonna be a ... holy moley!

Hospitality also takes the form of a trash can that is reasonably clean, both inside and out.  An unspoken, thankyou for the (hard) work you do.  Maybe the chimney sweep doesn't notice the grit-free area around the wood stove - much less, the clean room - but by the time his workday is done, his clothing and person will be gritty enough, thankyou.  He doesn't need any more from this customer.  In the yard, after a wind, going around and picking up any dead branches, so the man who comes weekly to cut the grass doesn't have one more thing to mess with his mower/blades.

As an aside - but very not really - selfish lazy family-menbers are known, too often, to kill hospitality, period.  This neat-freak blogger, has seen exactly this play out, a few too many times, among too many people.

There's a Scripture - and i don't recall where in the Bible - but it speaks about drunkards, whose tables are full of vomit.  The preacher, who referenced that Scripture, had noted that (selfish/lazy) drunks/druggies are usually sloppy people.  Hhmm, does it take a degree in quantum physics to understand how demoralizing it is to keep a place tidy, when sharing quarters with such a pathetic worthless?  Btw, i adamantly refuse to use that white-washed tomb of a word that denotes an illness.  UH-UH, covid is an illness - drunkenness is just plain, a seriou character flaw.  This blog is a no-coddle zone.

Got some leisurely tidying up to do. (Being Sunday, can't get too much into work.)  Bye :)