love takes many forms

"Hospitality is the overflowing of a heart that has to share what it has received. It takes a whole person to open up, it takes a secure person to be available, it takes a strong person to give yourself away....Only in opening yourself wide to another are you transformed by the power of love....We must let the person stir us; we must connect." -- ch.1 in the book Radical Hospitality

i've been struck by this idea that letting people into our lives is saying "yes" to letting ourselves be transformed -- and that saying yes means that we may never be the same again.

i say yes.