Ruth, Boaz, & a Missed Part

It has been a long day but the girls begged me to cuddle with them so I somewhat begrudgingly consented. It’s not that I didn’t want to cuddle with them – I did! – but there seems to be a never ending stack of things that are screaming for my attention and I wanted to knock a few off tonight.

But I climbed up to the top bunk an snuggled with Emmy for a few minutes and then crawled into the bottom bunk to talk with Abby for a few moments.  Abby asked me to tell her my favorite Bible story and when I shared that I really don’t know which one is my favorite, she sweetly pleaded for the account of Ruth and Boaz.

So I began, with the abbreviated tired mommy version; just the basic outline.  I told them of how Ruth gathered grain from the field and how she met the owner and they got married.  And that is when Emmy pipes up with, “Mom!  You missed a part!”

“What part?” I asked.

“The part about the field and the shoe.”

“Okay, how about you tell us…”

Emmy began, “Boaz went to the other man and asked him if he wanted the field and to marry Ruth.  But when he didn’t want to marry Ruth he made him give him the shoe to promise he wouldn’t want the field, too.  Then they got married.”

I just burst out laughing!  Her rendition was told with such gusto and mater-of-fact tone that it was funny coming from the small blonde almost-six-year-old of mine.  And it was amazingly sweet and tender.  I am so thankful for her and attention to details and pray that those details will impact her thinking as she grows older.