Team Hoyt

For this post to make any sense, I'm afraid you'll have to first go to Xue Yi's blog and read up on Team Hoyt there, and then watch the video.

I just have to blog about this; that's how deep an impact Team Hoyt had on me. It truly is a most touching story of how an unconditional love and determination has literally and figuratively scaled mountains and crossed seas. Thank God for such people, who being filled with such overwhelming and unconditional love, provides a relief from the cold, hard world of modern society. Praise God for such men who are striking examples that love can overcome the cruel world. May God bless them richly.

I can only aspire to be such a person, to be able to love and sacrifice so unconditionally, to be so determined to sacrifice for someone without any conditions but just out of pure love. That's the essence of being human, its the whole essence of humanity. The warmth of humanity - unconditional love, which Dick in Team Hoyt has exemplified so well. Words are failing me even as I attempt to carry on blogging, there's just no words in which I can find to adequately describe what I'm feeling. The video is honestly touching to the extreme, and I'm not ashamed to say that tears did formed and rolled. It's simply amazing. More so when you consider how difficult it is for Dick, especially to drag a boat while swimming; it would require no less than a supernatural effort. Not for money, not for fame, but just because his son liked sports. Just out of plain, simple love. Truly, such a feat belittles all that I have accomplished. Training twice a day, coping with research, term examinations at the end of the holidays and living by myself seems like such a small thing in comparision to all that Dick has done. I can only imagine the obstacles. Training after work, not to do just marathons or triathlons, but to do them while pushing/dragging along someone else. I can only imagine the full magnitude of such a task. My most heartfelt and sincere respect and admiration to Team Hoyt. Salutes. Thank and Praise God for them and their family, who serve so well as a modern reminder of the power of love and how love can indeed overcome the world. I can only imagine how difficult it was for the family to cope with Rick's condition; but despite it all, they did it. Amazing. Just amazing.

No one likes obstacles or difficulties, but it is only through them that such warmth and love can be most evidently seen. It is through difficult times that God's love can be most readily seen and felt. Not that it isn't there when we're going through good times, but more often than not, we mislead ourselves into thinking that the good times are a result of our hard work, forgetting that every good and perfect gift comes from our Father in heaven. It is ironic how the devil tries to upset us by throwing obstacles at us, for it is in our times of weaknesses that God's power is made perfect. It is in difficult times when others and ourselves can most easily see the power and love of God; it is in such times when testaments of the love of God cannot be denied even by those who do not yet believe. Truly, it is as what Paul has written, that 'Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong'. Sounds paradoxical at first glance, but completely true indeed. Praise and Thank God for his unfailing and unconditional love.