This fall I decided I didn’t have the time to commit to an organized Bible study at my church so my best friend and I picked up Kelly Minter’s study of Ruth. It’s called Ruth: Loss, Love and Legacy. I cannot express how much I love it.
(We also did Kelly’s first study, No Other Gods, this summer and adored it. Which is why we decided to continue with Ruth for the fall.)
(I just thought you might want to know.)
Anyway, I came across this quote this morning. Kelly had just taken us through Ruth 2:1-3 where Ruth decides to go glean in the fields and IT JUST SO HAPPENS that the field she ended up working belonged to Boaz.
Kelly talks about how their are no coincidences, but the hand of God in our lives and makes this statement:
“It is my hope that we walk away with a heightened sense of what God is doing all around us, even in the seemingly mundane; and that we remember how purposeful He is, how intently He carves our paths, authors each stroke, and weaves our courses into others’ lives.”
I’ve been praying for just that thing. That God would give me a heightened awareness of his presence in my life and that I would see him even in the smallest details.