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Ruth; 1 Samuel 1β3
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Sometimes we imagine that our lives should follow a clear path from beginning to end.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, after all.
And yet life is often full of delays and detours that take us in unexpected directions.
We may find that our lives are quite different from what we thought they should be.
Ruth and Hannah surely understood this.
Ruth was not an Israelite, but she married one, and when her husband died, she had a choice to make.
Would she return to her family and her old, familiar life, or would she embrace the Israelite faith and a new home with her mother-in-law? (see Ruth 1:4–18).
Hannahβs plan for her life was to bear children, and her inability to do so left her βin bitterness of soulβ (see 1 Samuel 1:1–10).
As you read about Ruth and Hannah, consider the faith they must have had to put their lives in the Lordβs hands and travel their unexpected paths.
Then you might think about your own journey.
It will look different from Ruthβs and Hannahβsβand anyone elseβs.
But throughout the trials and surprises between here and your eternal destination, you can learn to say with Hannah, βMy heart rejoiceth in the Lordβ (1 Samuel 2:1).
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π¨ πΌ: Whither Thou Goest, by Sandy Freckleton Gagon
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