So Ruth worked alongside the women in Boaz's fields and gathered grain with them until the end of the barley harvest. Then she continued working with them through the wheat harvest in early summer. And all the while she lived with her mother-in-law.

Ruth 2:23 NLT

This is life sometimes.

Quietly working away through the barley harvest, then the wheat harvest. 

Quietly rebuilding her life. 

It's easy to forget that Ruth was married and her husband died and now she is living in another country with her mother-in-law and is at the bottom of the economic ladder.

And day after day she turns up and does what she needs to do to support her whanau, Naomi.

There's an honouring here in the way that this is written. Ruth is quietly doing the work to keep this little fam going, literally for seasons. The barley harvest season, then the wheat harvest season.

The writer of this book sees her, and if this is you today, in the midst of the barley season and all you can see ahead is the wheat season, that's OK.

Seen.

Known.

And dearly loved.

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