Unconditional Love

A true story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco, “Mon and Dad, I’m coming home but I’ve a favor to ask. I have a friend I’d like to bring home with me.”

“Sure, they replied, “We’d love to meet him.” “There’s something you should know,” the son continued, “He was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us.”

“I’m sorry to hear that son maybe we can help him find some where to live.”

“No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us.”

“Son,” said the father, “ You know what you’re asking; Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live and we can’t let something like this interfere with our lives.

"I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He’ll find away to live on his own."

At that point the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him.

A few days later, however they received a call from the San Francisco police.

Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide.

The grief –stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him but to their Horror they also discovered something they didn’t know their son had only One Arm and One Leg.

There are parents in our story one like many of us. We find it easy to Love those who are Good-Looking or fun to have around, but we don’t like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable.

We would rather stay away from people who aren’t as healthy beautiful or smart as we are.

We conquered outer space but not inner space.

It is my weakness if I look at the weakness of others. There’s a miracle in us called Love that dwells in the heart.

Of you can not Love the person whom we can See, How can you Love GOD whom we cannot SEE.. Rig Veda

PM Ellamaran