We know the tragic story at the beginning of the book of Ruth: in a span of 10 years, a woman names Naomi loses not just her husband, but also her two grown sons and is left to put back the pieces. She decides to move back to her homeland of Bethlehem from Moab where she had settled many years before. Naomi urges both of her daughters-in-law to stay behind with the hope that they could marry again. One of them, Ruth, says absolutely not and in one of the most beautiful promises of devotion found in Scripture says: “Where
