Praying Ruth

Praying Ruth invites readers to encounter Scripture with grief, with loyalty, and with hope: standing on the road out of Moab and speaking the vow that has echoed through three thousand years of weddings and funerals and ordinary acts of faithfulness. Part of The Living Word Series, this beautifully written devotional guides readers through every scene of Ruth, offering prayers that move from famine to harvest, from emptiness to fullness, and from the bitterness of Mara to the joy of a child laid in an old woman's lap. Each prayer gives voice to the human struggle and divine faithfulness found in these ancient stories (loss and loyalty, gleaning and welcome, emptiness and redemption), revealing how the God who measured his providence in handfuls of grain left on purpose still orders the small turnings of our lives today. Designed for both personal devotion and communal worship, these prayers help readers take refuge under the wings of the Almighty and meet the true Redeemer, born in this same house of bread, who paid the price for a people who could give him nothing back. In every field and every gate, they remind us that God still gathers the empty and brings them home full, and every prayer becomes a way to stay, to glean, and to trust the kindness that would not let go.

Features of this prayer book:

• Twenty prayers following Ruth scene by scene, from the famine in Bethlehem to the line of David
• Honest, poetic, and theologically rich language
• Bridges ancient Scripture with present-day discipleship
• Ideal for personal devotion or communal worship