in the love of Christ

I have no real way of starting this so I am going to jump in head first. I have had this beautiful explanation of what an engagement was like in Ruth and Naomi’s lifetime. I am presently finishing the book Shattered Dreams, by Larry Crabb, and am daily blown away by just how much God has packaged into the story of Naomi and Ruth for all of us to learn from. The engagement topic of Boaz and Ruth is one very interesting part of this story and one that I probably would have missed without a wiser man’s direction toward what God tucked away between the lines. In Shattered Dreams, Crabb describes the true definition of an engagement in four pages of detail and commentary. I have now read those pages countless times and am convicted by what I have learned. Ever since Billy popped the question and all the plans started moving forward, my mind and heart have turned continually to how much preparation a wedding takes. I keep thinking to myself, with every step of this adventure, that, fo