Where you go, I will go. And where you stay, I will stay.

Ruth, chapter 1, verse 16.

Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled, Going with God, was written by Karen Pimpimpo and read by Tony Collier.

Ruth chapter 1, verse 6 through 17.

When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food

for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.

With her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the

road that would take them back to the land of Judah. Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law,

Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the Lord show

you kindness as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. May the Lord grant that

each of you will find rest in the home of another husband. Then she kissed them goodbye, and they

wept aloud and said to her,

We will go back with you to your people.

But Naomi said, return home, my daughters.

Why would you come with me?

Am I going to have any more sons who could become your husbands?

Return home, my daughters.

I am too old to have another husband.

Even if I thought there was still hope for me, even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons, would you wait until they

grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you,

because the Lord's hand has turned against me.

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