Q2 Ruth

I don’t know if we have to do a blog post this week, but I’ll do one just to be safe. This week I read Ruth from the Bible. Ruth is the story of a young girl who is recently widowed. Her mother-in-law, Naomi, tells her she and her sister-in-law can return to their families and their home town. Ruth’s sister-in-law returns home but Ruth tells Naomi, “Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord read with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me” (Ruth 1:16b-17). Ruth goes to Bethlehem with Naomi and decides to gather grain or wheat that the workers have dropped. Boaz, the second in line to marry Ruth after her first husband died, sees her out gathering and tells his men to drop good pieces of grain for her to gather and to treat her well. That night when Ruth goes home, Naomi tells her to go to Boaz’s harvest party that night and to “note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down” (Ruth 3:4). Ruth does this and Boaz falls in love with her. He knows that he cannot marry her unless Ruth’s kinsman-redeemer denies her. Boaz goes to him and convinces him to deny her. He does and Boaz married Ruth. Ruth had a child, Obed. He grew up to be the father of Jesse, the father of David.