Naomi You Can’t Shake Me!

From today’s reading…

“Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you!”

This is Ruth, a widow, speaking with her widowed mother-in-law, Naomi, who was returning to her home in Bethlehem after the famine had ended there.

I know what you’re thinking: “They sure don’t make ‘em like Ruth anymore.”

Yes they do. It’s you.

Ghandi told us “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

On the wall in Mother Teresa’s home for children in Calcutta was the following:

“People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

“If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

“If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

“If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

“What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

“If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

“The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

“Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

“In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”

Stay the course. Keep the faith. Endure.