The Healing of Hope

Hey hey someone caring! Today's post is on Ruth's story.


Where Ruth grew up,
women are generally despised
for being women.

They are thought to be a little on the expensive side
due to what a daughter's marriage dowry can cost
her family.

Ruth's family already had 3 daughters when
she was born,
and her father was less than pleased with the arrival of Ruth.

He openly seemed to resent her,
and made it quite clear that he had been anticipating a son...not another daughter.

Fortunately,
Ruth was introduced to a local church via some women missionaries and thus discovered the love of God... 2 years later she decided to go to Bible College.

Ruth went to her father to touch his feet in what is considered a "cultural sign of respect" but he didn't let her touch his feet. As she bowed down to touch his feet, her father didn't let her,
but rather, 
"he kicked her in the face.
With that, Ruth left behind the only life she'd known
and went to Bible College."


 Ruth kept in touch with the women missionaries and the pastor from her church;
while she was attending the Bible College. At one point,
she got a call from the pastor who informed her that her father
was "following Jesus now."And was asking how Ruth was doing.

Ruth went home,
after 3 years of not seeing her father.

"As the bus pulled up to the stop,
she saw him again. 
And she didn't know how to feel,
as she came off the bus.
She again knelt down to touch her father's feet. This 
time instead of kicking her...
her father took her by the hands,
lifted her up
(and for the first time in her life)
he hugged her."

After that,
Ruth journeyed from village
to village with the women missionaries
to spread the love of God.

Later down the road, (8 months later)
Ruth received a request from the Bible College
asking her to help oversee the Girl's dormitory.

"If those first women missionaries hadn't come to her village,
she doesn't know where she would be today. But because they
did, she can now bring hope to thousands of other women 
across South Asia.


What a beautiful and heart breaking story.
It amazes me to note the change that happened
not only for Ruth and her salvation
but also for her Dad's
and now for the women that Ruth is sharing this hope with.

Thanks for the taking the time to read.


Video can be watched here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzrste0b0GE&feature=youtu.be


-Jenna-out