How can we live together — be a safe landing place? Who will offer hospitality to whom? In a bi-cultural land these questions have depth, nuance and arouse passions. If we focus on the disagreements and division, we miss the crucial value of hospitality, manaakitanga, as the sacred ritual among human beings and with other creatures in our common home, Earth. The actual work of forming community is the responsibility of us all.

From: "Hospitality in Action" by Alison Phipps. Tui Motu Magazine. Issue 245 February 2020: 13

God of Community,
may we share food
not only with those at our tables
but with those who haven't enough.
May we think kindly 
not only of our friends
but of those who are different from us. 
May we grow in appreciating as kin
not only our whānau
but of all people and other life in your creation.

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