Give what has been given

We were given a gift of groceries from some Guatemalan friends of ours here as a thank you for all the work Heather has done at the school and with storytime. At dinner we read a story of a poor family that recieved a lot of gifts for Christmas and were found the next day wrapping them back up. When asked they said they were giving much of the stuff to their neighbors because, "how can we take all this when our neighbors are still poor." This spurned us to take half of the food given to us and "share" it with some people living in a champa (tin shack) just down the street from us. I hope we all are more willing to share generously and freely without the "wet-blanket" of fearing how they will use it getting in the way. We have been given freely, so should we freely give.