In a recent Bible Study we was challenged to try and summarise the ‘story so far’ in each of the chapters of the book of Ruth. I cheekily suggested we should summarise each chapter in Twitter-friendly haiku poems – and promptly found myself challenged to do just that. The results are below, in a slightly more permanent form than their original Twitter form (with line breaks, typos corrected and one refinement).
Ruth Chapter 1
Starving House of Bread
Ruth clings as Naomi pleads
Don’t call me Pleasant
Ruth Chapter 2
At barley harvest
Ruth’s diligent gleaning prompts
Kindness from Boaz
Ruth Chapter 3
Boaz uncovered
Ruth finds rest and Godly love
Under his mantle
Ruth Chapter 4
God in the detail
Ruth weds Kinsman-Redeemer
Mara full again
Ruth
Chapter 1
Elimelech died
His sons too Ruth Orpah Left
With Mara Ruth stays
Chapter 2
Ruth gleans grain in fields
Boaz’s eye does she catch
Ruth gleans till harvest
Chapter 3
At feet of Boaz
Ruth ask him to redeem her
Boaz makes promise
Chapter 4
A sandal he gets
Makes Ruth his wife and secures
The line of David
These are so cool!!
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