This chapter is about hope. It is not just hope for Ruth, but also hope for Naomi and Boaz as well. Hope is one the great gifts God gives us to strengthen us and lift us up. Without hope for the future, life becomes too hard to bear.
I keep reading these verses over and over again looking for what I am supposed to do to help God work fast to fix this. God tells Ezekiel to do is prophesy life into the death around him, then watch God do the rest.
Life is hard sometimes, like being run over by a train driven by a half-drunk Irishman in a bad mood and then getting backed over by the same said train for good effect. I had one of those times, and I am sure you have too.
This week like many on social media, I saw another author quit their dream. This one stated that the spent $4,000 with nothing to show for it. Unfortunately, that isn’t unusual.