When an unbeliever looks at your life as a Christ follower, what do they see?

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

I wonder how my reactions and my responses to everyday life and to the crises of life,

what am I telling the world about what God is like?

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgermuth, author of Adorned.

For February 10th, 2026, I'm Dana Gresh.

As you look at your circumstances, are you tempted to doubt God's goodness?

Well, keep listening.

Nancy's about to address the real-life challenges that threaten your peace, and she'll show you why you can still trust God.

She's in a series called Ruth, The Transforming Power of Redeeming Love.

Well, we come today to the close of Ruth Chapter 1.

We've been following this family from Bethlehem, then to Moab, and now having lost her husband and two sons, Naomi is coming back to her homeland, coming back to Bethlehem, and she's bringing with her

her widowed daughter-in-law, Ruth.

And so we come to verse 19 of chapter 1.

So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem.

When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women

exclaimed, can this be Naomi? Don't call me Naomi, she told them.

Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. This is a play on words here.

The word Naomi, as some of you know, means pleasant. And she's saying, don't call me pleasant anymore.

Call me Mara, which means bitter, because the Almighty has made

my life very bitter. I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me

Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me. The Almighty has brought misfortune upon me. Now, do you find

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