It is Valentine day and I think love is the theme for the day. I have been fortunate to come to know a family that has got to be one of the greatest love stories of all time. I am amazed by Scott and Becky Ryder. They have a call from God to love children and each other. Scott went with me on a team to train Police officers in Nicaragua 2 years ago and will be going again later this year if we can make it happen. Becky was a deputy before she became a full time mother. This group of six are their children. They are beautiful as you can see.
Scott and Beck have expanded their family by the leading of God and this beautiful and loving family has a lot of work to do. Kids are special and all of them need care. When some have special challenges it take a little more. Scott and Becky's story is powerful and so full of love. I urge you to take time to read Scott's telling of the story from his point of view. Download Hope - Scott Ryder
You can read some more details about their love and their life as God has blessed them on their blog page. You will see their love on display by reading about this remarkable and wonderful family on their family.
Being friends with Becky on Facebook I have seen her post as they have gone through so much this year. Asher is a very special young man that I began praying for 2 years ago as Scott and Becky told us about him in our team meetings as we prepared to go on the mission trip. They had not ever met him at the time, but they knew that he was to be their son. They stayed in my prayers as they journeyed to China, processed the adoptions and made the return home. Asher has had to go through some tough times enduring surgery and an extended time in a body cast but he is doing great. Each one of the children are very special and they are all full of love.
As you think about love about Valentines Day today, think about the Ryder family. This is a beautiful loving family that knows NO limits. They are living out 1 Corinthians 13 for us to see.
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New Living Translation
Love Is the Greatest 1If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;a but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. 4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 8Prophecy and speaking in unknown languagesb and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless. 11When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.c All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. 13Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. |
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