How do I submit? How do I parent? How do I love the people on my church? They're wonderful people, but it's not always easy. There are always opportunities every day before us.

As wives, as singles, as parents, as church members, to do right

in God's eyes and how we trust Him in loving people when it's hard.

Welcome to Family Life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are

Dave and Ann Wilson. You can find us at family life today.com. This is family life

today. Well, we've had some really fun days with Nana Dulce, as we've been talking about her book the seed of the woman and this is 30

narratives the point to Jesus of women in the Bible. We have gone deep. We have gone

deep with Esther, with Naomi, and so we're so excited Nana because you bring the Bible to life and you're bringing us these nuggets of gold that maybe we haven't caught before as we've read this

scripture and these familiar stories. But you're bringing not only these nuggets of gold,

but application of what this can look like in our lives.

Nana is a mom, she's a homeschooling mom with three children and one on the way.

She's been married 15 years. She's a Bible teacher and she's an

author. But today we're going to look at the story of Ruth. We've already been

talking about Naomi yesterday, so let's drop us back into this story of

Ruth and Naomi sure yeah we already know the setting the time of the judges

this famine this family goes to Moab and one of the sons of Naomi marries this lady named Ruth.

One of the things that, you know, in our earlier conversation,

I mentioned this word context.

Oh, that brings out so much richness.

We all know that Ruth is a mow-a-bite.

We know she's not an Israelite.

She's a foreign woman.

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