Three women on a dirt road. Each had to choose. Most of us would have done what Orpah did. The book is asking which one we will be.

In this letter

- Why Orpah is not the villain

- Ruth's choice as the costly one

- Hesed given and received throughout the book

- Loyalty as small, generations-shaping work

- The outsider angle — God's family tree full of outsiders

- The honest question about your own crossroads

Scripture

- Ruth 1:14-17

The question to sit with

Where in your life are you at a crossroads between the reasonable thing and the loyal thing? Where is God asking you to stay?

Coming tomorrow | The Whole Letter.

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