Two women. Alone. With no provision. Can a woman who has
lost everything, except her beloved mother, find hope in a foreign land?
Ruth
leaves her home with a barren womb and an empty future, after losing
her husband. She forsakes her abusive parents and follows the woman she has grown
to love as a true parent, her husband's mother, Naomi.
Ruth arrives in Israel
with nothing to recommend her but Naomi's, love. She is destitute, grief-stricken,
and unwanted by the people of God. Her loftiest hope is to provide enough food to
save Naomi and herself from starvation. She is reduced to gathering leftovers once
the harvesters have finished collecting grain from the field. A job only for the
lowest of the low.
But God has other plans for her life.
While everyone
considers Ruth an unworthy outsider, Ruth is shocked to find the owner of the field-one
of the wealthiest and most honored men of Judah-is showing her favor. Long
since a widower and determined to stay that way, Boaz finds himself irresistibly
drawn to the foreign woman with the dark, haunted eyes. He tells himself he is only
being kind to his Cousin Naomi's chosen daughter when he goes out of his way to
protect her from harm, but his heart knows better.
Obstacles. Heartache.
Withered dreams. How can God forge love, passion, and new hope between two such
different people?
