Radical Hospitality...Habit

In a great book called The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg talks about "keystone habits." Keystone habits identify key priorities, then change the fundamental behaviors to accomplish these priorities. "These small changes start a process that, over time, transforms everything."(p. 100)

The question of radical hospitality becomes a question of keystone habits. What small change breaks us open to the Spirit so that we can practice hospitality more completely? Mother Teresa saw the face of Jesus in every person she saw on the streets of Calcutta.

Maybe in these waning days of Lent, we could consider what small change we might institute that would ripple through our lives and enable us to live more fully as the hospitable people of God.

Our habit is to start with the biggest problem, the biggest failure, the biggest failure. Fixing the "biggest" is almost impossible. So what piece of the "biggest" is foundational...what is the small piece that adds up to the biggest?

That's the piece we might bury in the tomb this Holy Week so that life might be resurrected in us.

That small piece.

Keystone.