Turn—Six Sentence Story

In sorrow Naomi felt the need to turn away from Moab to find what was left for her in Bethlehem after the death of her husband and her two sons. Ruth, the widow of one of her sons, refused to let her go alone, telling her, Where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay, and your people will be my people, and your God will be my God, and where you die, I will die.

In Bethlehem Ruth gleaned from the fields of an older man, Boaz, not knowing he was a near kinsman of Naomi’s deceased husband. After negotiations with another kinsman Boaz redeemed the land belonging to Naomi and married Ruth so she could bear children to raise up the name of her deceased husband upon his inheritance.

As a result of this union, Ruth, a Moabite woman, bore a son and called him Obed. From Obed would come Jesse and from Jesse would come David, the singer of psalms, mighty in battle and a future king, and from David would come, generations later, Jesus, the promised Messiah.

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Denise offers the prompt word “turn” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories. For what really happened see the short book of Ruth.

Romans 10:13
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

16 thoughts on “Turn—Six Sentence Story”

  5. enjoy the re-tellings, somehow more details are appreciable… not that the original had a rhetorical density, if not complexity, that often results in a confusing narrative.

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    1. The original is better, but it occurred to me that many have never read the original. Indeed, I didn’t read it myself until about five years ago (or at least not all the way through). Thank you, Clark!

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