10 EASY Ways To Show Hospitality This Christmas

The Christmas season can be so incredibly busy!  I honestly find myself thinking, how can I make time for hospitality when I feel like my head is going to pop off!?!  It’s in those moments that I feel Jesus gently whisper in my ear,  “My child, your priorities are skewed.”  Here is some help for you and for me,  I am excited to share with you 10 EASY Ways To Show Hospitality This Christmas!

Approximately two thousand years ago Mary and Joseph were traveling to Bethlehem.  A town that appeared to have no friends, family, or even connections.   It came to be time for Mary to deliver her baby and if it had not been for the hospitality of an anonymous man or woman.  The savior of the world would have been born in the streets.  However,  someone had compassion on them and gave them the only place they had, a barn!  The King was born and laid in a manger.  Simple yes, I can only imagine how grateful the Holy Family was for this modest provision of hospitality.

Biblical Hospitality does not need to be fancy.  You don’t even need a clean house to practice it!  It really involves the heart and a willingness to share with others what you have available at the time.

Christmas is a great time of year to practice hospitality and open your home to so many lonely people that may be living around you.

10 EASY Ways To Show Hospitality This Christmas

• Have a desert night

• Cookie exchange

• Have a neighbor over for a hot chocolate bar

• Host a Christmas craft day

• Make shoeboxes for Samaritans Purse

• Have a widow over for dinner

• Provide childcare for your neighbors while they Christmas shop

• Make Christmas Cookie and Candy Boxes for your neighbors

• Purchase $5 Wendy’s gift cards and give to the homeless

• Make Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses

• Host a sled riding party

One of my favorite ways to make hospitality easy is to have on hand ingredients for some simple dishes that everyone is sure to love.

To get you started I am excited to share with you two amazingly delicious artichoke dips!  Baked Parmesan Spinach Dip and Creamy Roasted Artichoke Dip. These are both simple appetizers to share with family and friends.  At their home or your own home over the Christmas Season.

I find that most, wonderfully delicious recipes come from friends.  These two scrumptious recipes came from two very special people.  My dear friend Deena and my mother-in-law Joan.  Thanks to you both for your love of delicious food!

Enjoy! 

Blessings,