Ruth: A Love Story
by Michael Doyle

The times of the Judges were a redemptive cycle of strife,
Brutally reflective of that time's strident life.
In Ruth, Naomi is crushed and lost without pity.
She was compelled by hunger to quit Israel's Jewry.

Crisis was averted in this harvest of a story.
The road walked taught of God's bleeding victory.
Israel and Moab were locked in steadfast enmity.
Since the days of Moses, each was the other's enemy.

It came down to how each defined the other's morality,
And as always, that came down to a remembrance of infamy.
Bitter and lost inside the downside of emptiness,
Naomi became Mara and was caught up in all of this.

Rolling like a hitched wagon lost on the edge of survival,
Hope was all that awaited at Bethlehem's arrival.
Ruth chose to walk the path of faith and love.
She sought and fought for these things from above.

Moab fed the fires of its idol as a wrong-minded nation,
Giving up its sacrifice as the wages of its manipulation.
Even false believers will follow their God into the unknown.
We do this in full faith of God's truth shown.

Boaz loved her first for her behavior and reputation.
Ruth's character was impeccable by faith's foundation.
Treating well those who could offer her no benefit.
This was the actual tell that informed the needed fit.

Life and love come down to well-lived intentionality.
It's about living the righteous life in all actuality.
We evidence this by acting with forthright initiative.
As our soul dances a joyful hallelujah in our declarative.

The kinsman redeemer pays the required price.
Boaz, then Jesus, made the necessary sacrifice.
In doing this, they showed conflict's resolution,
And did so through righteous contribution.

(c) June 7, 2026   Michael Doyle
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