Month: March 2025

She replied, “Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today.” Ruth 3:18 Like most of us, when properly motivated, I can be persistent, not letting up until I accomplish what I set out to do. This can be for good…
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Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the LORD lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.” Ruth 3:13 I write often enough about my self-destructive nature, that anyone reading may think that…
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He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your wings over your servant, for you are a redeemer.” Ruth 3:9 When I first met my wife, I was immediately in love. She was not. I knew from the beginning that she was the woman I wanted to marry, but…
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Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?” Ruth 3:1 I’ve always loved being a parent. It’s defined much of who I am and has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life. Many times, as my kids…
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And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.” Ruth 2:22 It’s late winter in Minnesota and though we haven’t had a ton of snow, we’ve had our share of cold and ice, which means patients slipping,…
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When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.” Ruth 2:15-16 The other day, my wife asked me if…
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But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.” Ruth 2:11-12 When I first met my wife,…
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I went away full, and the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the LORD has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me? Ruth 1:21   Every morning, I spend the first half-hour of my day praying for a long list of people whom I know to…
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But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” Ruth 1:16 I grew up watching the Minnesota Vikings and I now love watching…
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“Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.” Ruth 1:20 I snapped at a guy a while back. I won’t go into specific details, except to say that I’d not eaten enough and found myself hungry, impatient, and a little crabby. As this guy droned…
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