Dear God,
I want a prince charming to come and marry me
someday. I watched the most beautiful love story happen right around me. See, I
am a servant girl to Mr. Boaz. He's a really good guy, and he always lets
people come and glean the fields after we are done going through collecting the
grain (2:5-9). He used to get teased as a kid, because his mother had been
a prostitute, but really she was a hero (Matt 1:5). Anyway, this girl came who
had a really hard past. Her name is Ruth. She was a Moabitess, but she married
an Israelite man and then he died (1:5). Her husband's dad and brother both
died too (1:3-5), so her mother in law moved back here and instead of going
back to her own family, she came with her here. Ruth would always follow along
behind us cautiously until Mr. Boaz noticed her and said to leave enough for
her that she wouldn't have to go to another field. Mr. Boaz even told her that
she should stay here and gave her food at meal times. It turns out that he is a
kinsman redeemer to her as well (3:2). That means that he is someone who can
marry her! We would always talk about it in the field, and now I miss her, but
she is so happy being married to him! And she even had a baby boy and named him
Obed (4:13, 17). He's so cute and she even has me watch him sometimes for her.
It's way better than being in the fields! You are amazing God! Sometimes life
seems so bad that it's like You've forgotten us, but You always come through in
the end. If only we could see the big picture!
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