Ruth Part 1: What Can I Learn from the Story of Ruth?

What Can I Learn from the Story of Ruth? Join us in learning more about the story of Ruth from the Bible. We find ways to apply the experiences of Ruth from Ruth chapter 1 to women today. On this episode we are joined by Heather B. Moore, an amazing author who happened to write a novel about Ruth.Key Talking Points·     What life was like for women during Old Testament times.·     Sometimes we want to isolate and be alone during grief or pain.·     The desperate situation for widows in Old Testament times, and how we are all beggars to God.·     We can be answers to peoples prayers in hard times—the angels God sends like Ruth was to Naomi. She was loyal and kind.·     Ruth’s true conversion to the God of Israel even in the face of such hard times, and leaping into the unknown trusting God will guide you.·     View family members & those we love through the lens of Jesus Christ with love and compassion and treat them that way.·     Pray and ask God to open your eyes to see others you are struggling with as He sees them. Main Takeaways·     From Bonnie, “We can strengthen [relationship] bonds, but it takes going to God and asking for his help, and having Him remove the bitterness, and forgive…. [and] not judging.”·     From Heather, “Prayer can really soften our hearts. And deliberately praying, whether it's for someone that's hurt us or offended us… And if we can see someone through God's eyes, then it just brings that peace to our own lives.”·     From Tamara, “I think anytime we go through something hard like these women definitely have there's a there's always the option to tip towards God or away from God. … And I love that, in their grief, these two women stayed true to Jehovah to their God.”Heather B. Moore’s BioHeather B. Moore is a USA Today bestselling author of more than ninety publications. Heather writes primarily historical and #herstory fiction about the humanity and heroism of the everyday person. Publishing in a breadth of genres, Heather dives into the hearts and souls of her characters, meshing her love of research with her love of storytelling.Her ancient era historicals and thrillers are written under pen name H.B. Moore. She writes historical women's fiction, romance and inspirational non-fiction under Heather B. Moore, and . . . speculative fiction under Jane Redd. This can all be confusing, so her kids just call her Mom. Heather attended Cairo American College in Egypt and the Anglican School of Jerusalem in Israel. Despite failing her high school AP English exam, Heather persevered and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University in something other than English.You can find a Heather’s novel about Ruth here.Please join Heather's email list at: HBMoore.com/contact/Website: HBMoore.comInstagram: @authorhbmooreFacebook: Heather B. MooreKeywords#ruth #naomi #god #Biblestory, #BibleWomen #love #grief#convertedtoChrist #JesusChristTranscriptTamara Anderson 0:00 Question for you guys. Have you ever wondered how the story of someone in the Old Testament like Ruth, applies to you today? I know I've wondered that before and, and so we're going to dive in and figure out how we can apply some of these things from her life to us. Stay tuned.Tamara Anderson 0:24 Welcome to Bible, Women & Bathrobes the podcast where faith meets comfort. Join us Tuesday and Thursday mornings as the gals from Women Warriors of Light and their guests, don bathrobes and dive into the inspiring stories of women in the Bible, and the teachings of Jesus Christ. From Esther's bravery to the Sermon on the Mount. We explore it all with warmth, laughter, sisterhood, and maybe even a few sleepy eyed moments. Tune in live or at your leisure as we learn lessons from scripture which empower women today.Tamara Anderson 1:06 Awesome. Well, ladies, welcome to the story of Ruth, we are so excited to be with you today. And I need to introduce Bonnie and I are on as hosts and co host and we have a guest today and we are so excited to have her on. And so let me introduce Heather B Moore. So Heather B. Moore is a USA Today best selling author of more than 90 publications. Holy cow. That's all I can say. Because I've only published I think four or five things. Actually, I think it's five now. And let me tell you that the publication process is nothing to snub your nose out. There's a lot that goes on behind the scene.Tamara Anderson 1:48 So Heather writes primarily historical and hashtag her story fiction about the humanity and heroism of the everyday person. Publishing in a breadth of genres, Heather dives into the hearts and souls of her characters meshing her love of research with her love of storytelling. Her ancient era historicals and thrillers are written under the pen name h be more. And she writes women's historical fiction, romance and inspirational nonfiction under Heather be more and speculative fiction under Jane read. This can all be confusing, so her kids just call her mom.Tamara Anderson 2:34 Heather attended Cairo American college in Egypt and the Anglican school of Jerusalem in Israel. Despite failing her high school AP exam, Heather persevered and earned a Bachelors of Science degree from Brigham Young University and something other than English. You can join Heather's email list at HB moore.com. And visit that that's her awesome website where you can find her books. Her Instagram handle is author, HB more, and Facebook is hp more. We are so happy to have her on with us this morning. Thanks for joining us.Heather B. Moore 3:12 Thank you so much for having me. I've been looking forward to this for a while.Tamara Anderson 3:18 Oh, well. And here's the cool thing. The reason we're having Heather on this morning is because she wrote this awesome novel about Ruth. And I just thought, wow, if you can write a story about someone in the Old Testament, you've done your research. And so I thought this is great, because the women in Old Testament times God bless them, I think they had a pretty difficult. Heather, why don't you kind of paint the background of what life was like for women in the time of the Old Testament?Heather B. Moore 3:52 Yeah, it was definitely was very challenging. As far as our modern viewpoint, one of the challenges I have as an author, when I write historical fiction, based on Old Testament characters, is trying to understand their mindset, and their culture. Because when I think of what their lives are, like, I get all caught up in well, that's not fair. And how come? How come they couldn't, you know, how come a woman can't own property? But, and, and how did she feel about that? Like I have to, and all of us, as we're studying the scriptures to try to understand, just in the context of the life they're living and the things that were were important to them may not be the exact same things that we feel like they should have, you know, been doing or making decisions on.Heather B. Moore 4:41 And so for Ruth specifically, and Naomi, her mother in law, is they both became widowed as we know. And so this sets them into kind of a different sphere of life, especially Naomi because she loses both of her sons. And in ancient Israel, it wasn't just having sons was seen as kind of a war, it was definitely a blessing from God. And so she feels like she's probably been picked on a little bit, not only after her husband, but her two sons are gone. But her sons are her insurance policy, they're the ones that will ensure that she's taken care of in her old age.Heather B. Moore 5:23 So she truly is destitute, not only grieving, but she doesn't really have a place to turn and that she can somehow live off of someone's charity, or become a beggar herself. So she, she obviously has a really good relationship with her daughters in law. And this is a little bit of a different situation than we may have today.Heather B. Moore 5:48 But, but when a woman marries, in the in that era, she will then go and live in her in laws home, not necessarily sometimes they have their home built in levels. And so you might have your own level, but you're basically under the roof of your mother in law. And so you become very, very close. Unless you don't have a good relationship, then it'd be a lot of friction. You become part of that family, you're literally becoming a daughter to your mother in law.Heather B. Moore 6:18 And so Naomi enjoy that relationship with her daughters in law, they seem to be even though there weren't children involved, for whatever reason, maybe the marriages weren't, hadn't been going on very long. And so but another thing that that Naomi dealt with is she was in a foreign