Minutes to Moments

...Reflections for Mom’s Busy Life by Maria Rodgers O'Rourke

09 Aug

Unconditional Love

“From her I had come to feel an unqualified acceptance which had little to do with my being good or bad, successful or unsuccessful, close by or far away. In her I had come to sense a love that was free from demands and manipulations, a love that gave me a sense of belonging that could be found nowhere else.”

Henri Nouwen, on his mother’s love for him

Dear Reader, who in your life has loved you the way Henri Nouwen described?

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