Jen- The Living Room Series- Ruth

I'm on session 2. I'm thinking I'm going to just note what stood out to me each day during the lesson. Our group is meeting every 2 weeks during the summer. So I'll do this for a week and then read whatever ya'll are reading.

Session 2- Day 1 Coming Home

Ruth 1:19-21- I really like this study because she goes really slow through the verses. In the past, I've quickly read through the couple of chapters and thought more about Ruth than Naomi. But this study, especially last week and this puts a lot of focus on her. I never really thought about Naomi and her personally struggles she had to deal with in going back to Bethelhem.

*"The whole town was stirred"v.19- Ten years had passed,but people had not forgotten Naomi. They couldn't believe that she was back and they probably had lots of questions as to why Ruth (a Moabite) was with her. I never knew and if I did I had forgotten that the Isralites were basically forbidden to marry or have anything to do with Moabites since they worshipped gods. If I was Naomi I would have been a nervous wreck and would be wondering if people were talking behind my back!

* v.20 She told them not to call her Naomi, but Mara. She is know a bitter women, She is in a lot pain as she comes back to her hometown. She left with her life in tack and full. She comes back still hungry, no husband or sons. Plus she has a Moabite in her care. She is mad at God. She knows she belongs to him, but she feels forgotten and holds him responsible for what has happened in her life.

* Kelly compared Job and David as other Godly people who also felt forsaken, forgotten, dismissed and destoryed by God. She also stated that many of us have felt the same way but have never addresed these feelings out loud to God. I know there have been times, I have yelled out at God and cried out why and where are you!

* My favorite qoute this today was "God doesn't want our "right answers"; He wants our hearts


Father, thank you for the place that I'm in right now. Things are going well and feel your presence. I ask for your help in the times when I feel down and forgotten that I will be real and honest. That I would pour out my heart to you and that you will give me strength to carry on.