“Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.” (Ruth 1:20–21, NIV 1984).
My Musings – She (Naomi) went away full, with a husband and two sons. She came back empty, leaving three graves behind. But then again, not quite empty. A daughter-in-law (Ruth) returned with her. Sometimes, maybe more often than we would like, we must go through the bitterness, emptiness, affliction and misfortune. Such things happen in a fallen world. But God has a way of taking these things and turning them out for the good. Blessings we may not have otherwise had any other way.
So, Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. Then he went to her…
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