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Advent(Dec. 12): The Little Things

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When Naomi heard in Moab  that the Lord had come to the aid of his people  by providing food  for them, she and her daughters-in-law  prepared to return home from there.   With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah. Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home.  May the  Lord  show you kindness,  as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands  and to me.   May the  Lord  grant that each of you will find rest  in the home of another husband.” Then she kissed  them goodbye and they wept aloud. But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you  or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go,  and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people  and your God my God. Ruth 1:6-9, 16 "Ruth left the land of idols she had grown up with and went back to Naomi's land - Bethlehem. At first, it didn't look like an