Key text: Ruth 1: 16-18

“Your people will be my people and your God will be my God.”     The Book of Ruth is a story from many years ago set in a country and society we may not completely understand in light of our current society.  Ruth made this commitment to her mother-in-law Naomi as they were preparing to return to Bethlehem from Moab.  This story is not a fluffy accounting of some love story but rather it is a story of famine, starvation, death, and the survival of a family.  Our society can learn much from this story.