Hospitability
To be hospitable is to be warm and accommodating, to be hospitable, to be indeed welcoming.
Hospitality is a very great act that is not practiced by so many people for some reasons; some people believe that they should not be hospitable because the world is filled with so many strange events and happenings.
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There was a woman I heard about who welcomed a stranger into her home because she wanted to assist the stranger, at the end of the day the stranger killed her three beautiful children.
So many wicked stories about helping and being hospitable have been told but does that mean that people should stop being hospitable.
It has been told so many times that people should not receive strangers into their homes as they could end up causing great havoc but how about a very small child comes to the front of your house and knocks faintly, you watch him shiver and cough repeatedly but you are afraid of the security of yourself and of your family as it is your duty to protect them first. You shut the door on his face and walk back inside, you are not a wicked person but you need to be security conscious you tell yourself. The next morning you find the little boy lying dead in front of your house and you wish you had helped him by bringing him into your house, giving him shelter and warmth maybe that would have saved his life but it is already too late now as the young guy was gone.
You fight so hard to hold back your tears as you have realized that the boy was innocent.
But looking at it the other way, what if the little child was not innocent and he had bombs planted on his body, you let him in because he looks to faint and innocent, immediately he gets into your home you hear a loud sound and the whole family and neighborhood is destroyed because of your good act of hospitality.
What exactly should be done, should people help others by being hospitable and welcoming or nobody should assist anybody because we are all scared of helping the wrong sets of people. I really want to hear your opinion about the issue.