The brightest diamond;

 Pay attention to the women that God puts in front of you.  Boaz is out and Ruth is right in front of him in the providence of God.  She may not be what he had on his little check list. He wasn’t looking for a Moabite, a race who’s the product of incest, who’s a widow, not a virgin, who comes with a bitter mother-in-law and is homeless. Right, that probably wasn’t on his list, but that was Ruth.

She loved God, and she was amazing, and it’s one of the great love stories of the whole Bible.

Jesus. He meets us right where we are. He takes broken people, so different and yet so much more alike and shows us the scars on His hands and said it’s ok if we have scars too, because the scars are always drawing us to Him.

The truth is I can feel evil and darkness attempting to rip apart every facet of my life and cause me to feel defeated, or doubtful and wrong.  It’s very heavy and very hard, but I know I’m doing the right thing in the right place.

 We do not serve when it is convenient for us. We serve and answer a need when called.