GLORIA'S GENEROSITY...a great example of faith & trust

Recently I was so challenged by the generosity displayed by one of the widow's we work with in Tres Reyes.  Her name is Gloria.  She is such a hard worker and doing the best that she can to keep her family together.  She's been living in a cement block house (formerly a thatched palapa) with her 5 children and one year old grand-daughter.  The "windows" don't have glass (yet) and of the back entrance doesn't have a door.  Her kitchen is outside where she cooks over a wood fire on a make-shift fire pit using wood she splits herself.  Our project on this day was to even out the dirt floors so we could pour cement in the main room, bedroom, and bathroom of her home.

We arrived with our team of about 25 people. As we always do, we packed our own lunches before we left for Glorias. But when we got there we realized that Gloria was planning to make lunch for and feed EVERYONE!  I'll back up just a little bit and say that on our way to her house, we bought Gloria groceries; just the basic's....potatoes, boxed milk, rice, beans, tomatoes, corn tortillas, and a few other items. Because she doesn't have a fridge, we only bought Gloria a couple packs of meat, which she had to cook right away so it wouldn't spoil.  So when we got there the team unloaded all of the groceries and started to work... and so did Gloria. Some of us started leveling off the floor, some started mixing the cement by hand. And Gloria started to cook. I was able to help Gloria with the food. With the potatoes we bought her and some of her own, she made potato crouquettes stuffed with cheese. She used EVERYTHING she had to make this lunch for our team.  She also made homemade salsa, beans and rice.  She even used the tortilla's we brought for her family. Her generosity overwhelmed me to the point that I had to ask myself....am I that generous? Would I be willing to cook up most of my food for a group of people, some of whom I barely know? The other thing that spoke so loudly to me was Gloria's faith and trust that God would provide! What a great example Gloria was, challenging us to live life giving our all.