Lord our God,
you are a God who wants to enter into relationship with human beings. But you never impose yourself.
May we be ready to open the door of our hearts and homes to you
when you knock quietly at our door, through the stranger, the poor, the unwelcome friend who
asks for bread in the middle of the night, the traveller who hopes to be invited into the tent of hospitality.
This is how you came to visit us.