Hospitality or Hostility

In this time in which the Trump administration is greeting persons seeking asylum at our borders with savage cruelty one might call attention to:

                                       Proverbs 31:8-9

                     Open your mouth for the mute,

                           for the rights of all who are destitute.

                            

   Open your mouth, judge righteously,

                           defend the rights of the poor.  

With children being separated from their parents at the border it is time to invoke the wisdom of Solomon.  The loving mother is the foundation of any civilization. The words “hostility” and “hospitality” have the same root. We have a duty of hospitality to every human being.  So many times the duty of hospitality for immigrants is mocked in favor of action that is hostile towards them. The Trump administration seems to delight in doing mean things to people who have no power and who are “destitute” and who are “poor.”