Held safely within this tiny silo, with time and space to rest and reflect, it is no surprise that night dreams and day thoughts reveal to the conscious mind the significance and richness of hospitality – offered in sometimes the smallest and simplest of ways by this land and it’s people.

Another visit to the Cardboard Transitional Cathedral in Christchurch two days ago revealed the icon of welcome and generosity we have already met several times on this journey.

The questions this archetypal image poses for us may be something like:

• in our very transitional pattern of existence just now, how can we live generously and with an open heart of hospitality towards others?
• how attentive are we to receiving the profoundly simple generosity of life afresh each new day?