My History of Hospitality
My most memorable hospitality experience was when I first started to serve the guests in our church, the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle, in 2009. Before that, I was not really a hospitable person, even though I am from India, a very hospitable country. In India, as soon as the guest arrives, the host serves that person water and then asks for their food or drink preferences. This hospitality is based on the principle “Atithi Devo Bhava”, meaning “the guest is God”. Indian people treat their guests with proper warm hospitality, which certainly requires extreme care and attention. In fact, we are even friendly and hospitable to strangers on the road. If anyone asks us for directions, we will likely not only tell them where to go, but also accompany them to their destination, especially when the place is nearby Yet, despite these good hospitable qualities, I never fully understood the relationship between the host and the guest. I was not really a people...