Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Our Reading titled Learning from Each Other

was written by Katera Patton. Years before Zoom was an accessible communication tool,

a friend asked me to join her on a video call to discuss a project.

Through the tone of my emails, she could tell I was baffled, so she suggested I find a teenager

to help me figure out how to set up a video call. Her suggestion points to the value of

intergenerational relationships. It's something observed in Ruth and Naomi's story in the

Bible's book of Ruth. Ruth is often celebrated for being a loyal daughter-in-law, deciding to leave

her land to accompany Naomi back to Bethlehem. When they arrived in the town, the younger woman said to

Naomi, let me go to the fields and pick up the

leftover grain for us. She helped the older woman, who then helped the younger woman marry

Boaz. Naomi's advice for Ruth prompted Boaz to take action in purchasing her deceased

in-law's property and to take her as his wife. We certainly respect the advice of those who share their

seasoned wisdom with younger generations, but Ruth and Naomi remind us that the exchange can go both

ways. There's something to be learned from those younger than us, as well as those who are older.

Let's seek to develop loving and loyal intergenerational relationships.

It will bless us and others and help us learn something we don't know.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Ruth Chapter 2,

verses 11 and 12 and chapter 3

verses 1 through 6. Boas replied, I've been told about what you have done for your mother-in-law since

the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother in your homeland and came to live

with the people you did not know before. May the Lord repay you for what you have done.

May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel,

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