Hospitality is expounded as the altruistic and friendly treatment of visitors and guests. Some take it a step further and define it as the reception and entertainment of others.
Essential hospitality in its most basic form can be simplified down to two main ideas and these are generosity and kindness. As women our liability to nurture and care for those around us gives us the loving gift of being innately talented at the art of hospitality. Being hospitable has a deep and heartfelt effect on the people we love and might just influence our own nature more than we think. Being hospitable we would like to invite our loved ones to any event or house party. Welcoming the guests in a loving way is something amazing in itself. There are plenty of approaches that make your guests feel pleasurable and respected. Just take a first step, hang a welcoming board on your door or just put a welcome decals for front doors in a beautiful way.
Tips and quirks for hospitable home
It's always amazing to have loved ones come to visit and stay with you. You get to be a guide for a few days as you exhibit them around your town and your favorite places. But when they arrive you have to make sure your guests feel comfortable in your home. Let’s talk about some tips and tricks for being loving towards your guests.
Make your guests feel comfortable
How you make someone feel loving and easy in your home can also vary from person to person. A few acts to do it is by offering refreshments as simple as water or a snack. If they like to have it, you could even give them tea or coffee. You can keep your home clean and decorated. Make ready everything they might need such as a towel or tissues on hand. When you do these tiny touches in your home you make your home feel very welcoming.
Give gifts to show how you love
Who doesn’t applaud it when they receive gifts. When someone comes to your home and gives you a gift, that's an amazing gesture in itself. Giving a thoughtful gift shows that you value your guests and like them in your company. It’s also not about getting costly gifts. It’s the idea that you spend time not just buying a gift but thinking of one that will suit them and they’ll love.
Extend your help
Another way of exhibiting hospitality is by giving help whenever you can. Maybe you can help them to find something or do some stuff. Be it a little one or a major one. Helping out a guest shows how much you love and care for them. It can also be a perfect way to bond with someone.
Let them know you enjoy their company
Communicate how much you enjoy having them in your home. Nothing feels more welcoming than ensuring them that you are having fun in their company. You can tell them that you’re happiest in their presence and looking forward to having them over again. After that prove your praise by inviting them again to your home.
Make a good meal for them
One really delicious and simple way to make guests feel welcomed in your home is to prepare a meal for them or at least bake something. If you don’t have any cooking abilities, get ready a tasty lemonade or buy something at the store to serve instead. If nothing else, have a plate of fruits out or offer them some coffee or tea.
Don't think too much for everything
The house has to be ideal, the food gourmet and the kids well behaved or the evening is a flop. Fact is the people you will have in your home are real people too. Their homes get grimmy, their kids misbehave, they don’t always cook intricate meals. Do the work the God has called you to and invite loved ones into the life He has given you. People will value that far more than everything accurately planned and executed.
Start small
Plan to invite people to your home once or twice a month. Start with people you feel cozy with. Welcome those people into your life and heart. If you plan this once or twice a month there is a good possibility you will come to appreciate the ministry of hospitality and soon be doing it more and more.
Commit
You can initiate with being intentionally hospitable once a month but you have to commit to actually doing it. You are required to set a commitment in your mind and heart that you will be hospitable. After a while you may not require to set a special evening for hospitality in your planner because it will become a lifestyle. It will always take devotion. However, because sometimes it just feels convenient to live a life of relative seclusion. God’s way of living life in community is always good though.
Send them back home with treat
Lastly, when guests have to leave your house, send them back home with something. If it’s a short visit it can be as classic as a slice of your homemade banana bread or if they’re there for a longer stay give them something small and simple. It could be a bouquet of flowers, a small plant, a cute coffee mug, a box of your favorite herbal tea wrapped up pretty or even something as simple as a batch of your favorite muffins. Sending guests home with a little treat lets them know you are delighted they came and hope they’ll come back or at least let them know you’re extremely generous.
