There are many of us who hesitate to take gifts - I do not mean the material kind - but gifts of involvement, love, advice, hospitality, help etc from others, because they are worried that they would not be able to pay them back.
I think it is gracious to take. Just as gracious it is to give.
When we take gifts, of the kinds mentioned, we allow ourselves to be grateful to the other, and promise to ourselves to bestow back the same gifts - not to the same person, because one can never really repay anything that has been received in gratitude - but by giving the same gifts to some other person who needs it.
In short, gifts given are to be passed on. To the other. Like passing the parcel. Take from one, give it to the other.
Receive love, affection, kindness. In turn give away love, affection and kindness to some other person who needs it. And let the gratitude stay.
When someone denies taking the gifts I have to offer, that person is as guilty of stopping the flow of gratitude and gifts, as the person who does not pass the gratitude to the next person.
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