The day after Valentine's Day and we begin a love story - the story of Naomi and Ruth and Boaz, too... The Book of Ruth is about love and about faithfulness. After some of the books we've read, it is a relief to hear a story about the ancestory of Jesus that is about love and faithfulness.
If the world could only treat one another as Naomi and Ruth treated each other, with concern for the other's future, with a willingness to walk beside the one they are with, supporting them even as they support you.
It had to be pretty tough for Naomi to find herself without any men in her (their) lives to care for them. It was not a time when women were able to care for themselves well. She had not only lost her husband and sons, but now she would lose her daughters-in-law because she could not care for them. They needed to return home to their families so someone would support them. But, Ruth would not. She would walk beside her late husbands mother. They would continue as family even though there was no blood connection between them.
There is a blood that is thicker than blood. It is the blood of Christ shed for you... A gift of love... to join us as family forever...
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