Unconditional Love
Even though you’re reading this, click the link and listen to the conversation that I’m writing about.
I heard this story Friday morning and, like Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, I found myself just plain moved.
This past Friday’s Story Corps interview on NPR’s morning edition, featured a conversation between mother and daughter Bonnie and Myra Brown.
Standard fare you think? Not in this conversation.
Ms. Brown “is intellectually disabled, works at Wendy’s while raising Myra as a single mom.” (NPR) While Myra is a student in her high school’s gifted and talented program.
I may never hear a greater expression of unconditional love than in this exchange between mother and daughter:
“I am really thankful because you understand me, and you love me, and you accept me. And … thank you for that,” Ms. Brown tells her daughter.
“I don’t know, you kind of make it seem like I tolerate you — I love you. You’re a good parent, and just because you’re disabled doesn’t mean that you do anything less for me…I want you to know that even though our situation is unique, I’m happy that I am in it because I am happy that I am with you,” Myra says.
Something is right in the world.
