Every act of genuine love is an expression of grace. It is a gift. In loving without the desire to possess we find ourselves receiving more than we give. This experience comes to us most frequently in the practice of hospitality. In welcoming the stranger, we find ourselves being welcomed. We find a part of ourselves that had been lost.

Rick Kyte is the Endowed Professor and Director of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University. Rick writes a regular column for the La Crosse Tribune titled “The Ethical Life.” He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Downtown Rotary Club of La Crosse.